Eric Potts
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This was on the Sun website earlier today , but now seems to have been pulled .
"FOOTBALL boss Graham Westley told his players to prepare for a 9/11-style terror attack in a bizarre late-night text.
The Preston North End manager said al-Qaeda was targeting the team's hotel.
Players were stunned by the text sent hours before Saturday's crunch game with Yeovil — which they lost 2-1.
Westley, 43, wrote: "In view of the must win game tomorrow beware of the low flying aircrafts as we are in a very high hotel which will be a target for al quaeda leaders (sic).
"If we come under attack we must stick together and keep evolving as a team and bring pain on them. Make sure u have right footwear on incase of such events."
The text has puzzled stars at the League One club.
A source said: "Nobody is quite sure what to make of it. They don't know if it is meant as a joke or what.
"It is a very odd thing to say. They can't work the gaffer out — they all think he's lost the plot." Last week Westley — who joined Preston from Stevenage earlier this month — dropped four players from the team in a 2am text.
Westley apologised for delivering the news so late, claiming it had taken a long time to add all the players' numbers to his phone's address book.
He said later: "I have always communicated in different ways and I have no plans to stop."
"FOOTBALL boss Graham Westley told his players to prepare for a 9/11-style terror attack in a bizarre late-night text.
The Preston North End manager said al-Qaeda was targeting the team's hotel.
Players were stunned by the text sent hours before Saturday's crunch game with Yeovil — which they lost 2-1.
Westley, 43, wrote: "In view of the must win game tomorrow beware of the low flying aircrafts as we are in a very high hotel which will be a target for al quaeda leaders (sic).
"If we come under attack we must stick together and keep evolving as a team and bring pain on them. Make sure u have right footwear on incase of such events."
The text has puzzled stars at the League One club.
A source said: "Nobody is quite sure what to make of it. They don't know if it is meant as a joke or what.
"It is a very odd thing to say. They can't work the gaffer out — they all think he's lost the plot." Last week Westley — who joined Preston from Stevenage earlier this month — dropped four players from the team in a 2am text.
Westley apologised for delivering the news so late, claiming it had taken a long time to add all the players' numbers to his phone's address book.
He said later: "I have always communicated in different ways and I have no plans to stop."
