Manager believes a gruelling team-bonding exercise could be key to his League Two side beating Premier League Everton in the fourth roundThe coach pulls up external an elegant Georgian mansion situated in extensive private grounds sweeping down to Lake Windermere. It looks like an expensive country-house hotel but Keith Curle’s players soon discover it is somewhat closer to an SAS induction facility. On this changeable July day,Carlisle United have arrived at Cassius Camps. A business specialising in outdoor challenges, staffed by instructors expert at “pushing the limits” and “wild fitness”, and it is patronised by professional sports teams and tall-achieving company executives.
The gruelling interlude Curle’s League Two squad are set to endure here is designed to produce long-term benefits. Seven months on,the resultant team bonding offers Roberto Martínez and his Everton side additional reason to feel slightly nervous about Sunday’s FA Cup fourth-round tie in front of a capacity 17000-plus crowd at Brunton Park.
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Source: theguardian.com