The only way is up for Mark Hughes’s Carlisle as US owners raise stakes

League Two’s basement dwellers are seven points from safety but win against Bromley gives hope of great escape

Name the League Two club with wealthy, fully committed, American owners, a famous name in the home dugout and a squad boosted by 11 January signings? If the answer – Carlisle – is easy, the ­reasons why they are stuck to the bottom of England’s Football League with nine games to go remains rather harder to fathom.

Perhaps appropriately, Billy Ocean’s hit Red Light Spells Danger greeted fans taking their seats at Brunton Park before kick-off against Bromley on Saturday, but at least, by the end the hazard had diminished, albeit slightly, for a team on their third ­manager of the season.

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