{"id":575787,"date":"2020-12-26T09:59:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T14:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=575787"},"modified":"2020-12-28T11:24:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T16:24:16","slug":"chris-beech-carlisle-united-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/12\/26\/chris-beech-carlisle-united-contract-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Beech: Carlisle United Head Coach Signs Contract Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlisle United head coach Chris Beech has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carlisleunited.co.uk\/news\/2020\/december\/club-chris-beech-extends-stay-until-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signed a contract extension<\/a>, keeping him at the club until 2022. Beech joined the Cumbrians in November 2019 when they were just five points above the relegation zone in League Two. He eased the relegation worries last season and currently has United sitting third in the table. Beech&#8217;s assistant, Gav Skelton, has also agreed an extension to his current deal.<\/p>\n<h2>Chris Beech Signs Contract Extension at Carlisle United<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"et\">\ud83c\udf85\ud83c\udffc Merry Chris-tmas \ud83d\udc99 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cufc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#cufc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RF6cP30jUT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/RF6cP30jUT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Carlisle United FC (@officialcufc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officialcufc\/status\/1342410982417694720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Beech Delighted to Extend Stay<\/h3>\n<p>The work done by Chris Beech and his backroom team in just over a year in charge has been admirable. Carlisle were struggling under former boss Steven Pressley and their situation could have been a lot worse were it not for the terrible form of both Macclesfield Town and Stevenage.<\/p>\n<p>Now, United are one of the main contenders for promotion to League One, a league they haven&#8217;t competed in since 2014. They are currently third and lie just two points behind both Newport County and Forest Green Rovers are the top.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the club website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carlisleunited.co.uk\/news\/2020\/december\/club-chris-beech-extends-stay-until-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beech said<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019ve always said I\u2019m very honoured to be head coach of this football club. It\u2019s gone really well since the day I walked in and I\u2019m very proud of that fact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pleased that the club has seen the work that\u2019s been done and that they\u2019re looking to support it, and I\u2019m very thankful of everybody that they\u2019ve committed to that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike I\u2019ve said before, thank you to the chairman and Carlisle United for giving me the opportunity to be their number one, or however you want to describe the role.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Defender Leaves on Loan<\/h3>\n<p>Carlisle have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carlisleunited.co.uk\/news\/2020\/december\/loan-defender-makes-loan-switch\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">also confirmed<\/a> that defender Max Hunt has joined National League side Yeovil Town on a 28-day loan. The 21-year-old joined the club in January from Derby County and has so far made nine appearances, the last of which was in the Papa John&#8217;s Trophy against <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/aston-villa-club-news-analysis-fixtures\/\" target=\"_self\">Aston Villa<\/a> U21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlisle United head coach Chris Beech has signed a contract extension, keeping him at the club until 2022. Beech joined the Cumbrians in November 2019 when they were just five points above the relegation zone in League Two. He eased the relegation worries last season and currently has United sitting third in the table. Beech&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":575793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,34,30],"tags":[831,7262,168,7263,520,136],"class_list":["post-575787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-league12","category-news","tag-carlisle-united","tag-chris-beech","tag-efl","tag-gav-skelton","tag-league-two","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}