BURY manager Chris Casper has been offered a new two-and-a-half-year deal.

The former Manchester United player offered to resign earlier in the month having played a key role in the club being sensationally thrown out of the FA Cup.

Casper's blunder in not securing a written agreement with Hartlepool for loan player Stephen Turnbull to appear in the second-round replay win over Chester cost the Shakers dear.

But the club have stood by their man, who has guided the team to ninth in League Two and kept them in with a chance of a push for promotion in the New Year.

Director Iain Mills said: "Before the start of the New Year, we will have extended Chris Casper's contract for another two-and-a-half years. That shows how much belief we have in the manager.

"We are all for talking to one or two of our younger players. We have a bright young manager, who does make one or two mistakes, and there are also one or two very good players that we want to keep."

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