Whitstable Town FC

picture Tommy Sampson (middle) Tommy Sampson, 53, a friend to many, and a highly-respected football manager, is currently in Maidstone hospital recovering from a small stroke that he suffered last Wednesday.

Whitstable Town manager Marc Seager after visiting Tommy on Monday night said..."I was so glad to see an improvement since the weekend, Tommy looks much better and I'm sure that his fighting spirt will help him get well soon."

 www.kentishfootball.co.uk sincerely wish him a full and speedy recovery and hope it won’t be too long before he returns to football management soon.

Currently managing at Sussex County League minnows Redhill, a man like Tommy Sampson should be managing a much bigger football club - and here in Kent!

Seager played for Sampson and in 2000 clinched the FA Carlsberg Vase for Deal Town at Wembley Stadium, and both speak on a regular basis.

And Seager informed www.kentishfootball.co.uk about Sampson’s situation tonight.

“Tommy had a small stroke last Wednesday evening, he’s in Maidstone Hospital on the start of his recovery,” he said.

“His consultant is confident that Tommy will make a full recovery and anyone who knows Tommy will know he will be determined to make a full recovery.

“Me and Tommy are very close and I think the world of him. Not only Tommy is a great manager, he’s a great man, and is very well respected in football.

“At times like this it shows that the sport of football is one big family.

“Tommy said everybody whose text and phoned him that he’s very, very grateful and it’s meant a lot to him all the well-wishers.

“And he’s looking forward to getting back in the dug-out soon.

“He’s lost feeling down the left-side of his body, but he’s had his first bit of physio today on his first day of recovery. He’s in good spirits in his bed, being positive.”

The Kent football community can pass on their GET WELL MESSAGES, which will be passed onto Tommy at his bedside.

Please click on CONTACT US, leaving your name and club.

YOUR MESSAGES OF SUPPORT:

Best wishes and we all hope your recovery is a speedy one, and you’re back in your dug out ASAP - Hugo Langton, First team manager, Rusthall Football Club.