Bottom two sides in Isthmian League South East Whitstable Town and Phoenix Sports meet this weekend; Keith McMahon has a foot in both camps

There’s an intriguing battle of the basement sides coming up this Saturday in Isthmian South East.

Whitstable are a place and three points in front of bottom side Phoenix Sports ahead of their meeting at Mayplace Road.

Keith McMahon has a foot in both camps, as first-team boss of Whitstable and a junior team coach at Phoenix, where his sons play.

McMahon said: “They are two brilliant football clubs but it is what it is and we have to be professional on the day and go there and get a result.

“Neither side is going to get relegated after Saturday, we have 11 games after that one.

“It is going to be what happens in those games, you can lose this game and get through it.

“We just need to be solid, very positive in what we believe and if we get three points we can move on from there.

“Three points won’t mean we are safe. It is so tight down there, anyone from 13th can get relegated.”

Bottom side Phoenix have been picking up positive results since Steve O’Boyle returned to the manager’s job.

They beat promotion-chasing Haywards Heath last weekend and took a point off second-placed Cray Valley before that.

McMahon said: “I am not really looking at Phoenix, we have to look at ourselves and work hard, and if we do that and play well then we will get a result.

“We have a good side and have been playing quite well. We lacked a bit of desire against Sittingbourne (in a 2-0 defeat) but on Saturday (at Cray Valley) we played well, Hastings we played well, Corinthian we should have won, we played well.

There is just the odd game where we aren’t playing well but I am still confident and so are the team.”

The Oystermen were beaten 2-1 last Saturday, letting slip an 18th-minute lead after George McIlroy had put them ahead.

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