Who was the manager when you went to your first match?

B_HenrySt

B_HenrySt

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Ron Suart. There, I've shown my age.

The unusual situation in those days was that (pretty much) nobody ever got sacked. Growing up, I could name all the Lancashire teams managers for years; Andy Beattie - PKE. Harry Potts - Burnley, Jack Marshall - t'Rovers, Bill Ridding - Bolton to name but a few. Times have changed that's for sure.
 
The first I remember is Sam Allardyce, I know I went to games before that and sure it was during the Jimmy Mullen era. Back then I was more interested in the NCP orange and Mars bar my dad got me!
 
Sam Ellis I think, who soon sodded-off to the much more attractive set-up ay Gigg Lane, Bury! I think he even poached Tony Cunningham.
 
Suart. ' The thought of managing the club I once played for gives me a thrill'.
Ring any bells?. He looked like my old maths teacher, who also favoured a policy based on attack.
 
No idea, my Grandad took me in the early seventies, could have been Stokoe or Potts. When I started going on my own mid 80s it was Sam Ellis.
 
B_HenrySt said:
Ron Suart. There, I've shown my age.

The unusual situation in those days was that (pretty much) nobody ever got sacked. Growing up, I could name all the Lancashire teams managers for years; Andy Beattie - PKE. Harry Potts - Burnley, Jack Marshall - t'Rovers, Bill Ridding - Bolton to name but a few. Times have changed that's for sure.
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I can remember Ron Suart being manager but the lifetime of passionate following really only began for me with the signing of Gordon Milne in May 1967 though I may have seen a couple of matches before that. Suart left in February and Mortensen took over so Mortensen was the first manager I ever idolised.
 
Terminallytangerine said:
I can remember Ron Suart being manager but the lifetime of passionate following really only began for me with the signing of Gordon Milne in May 1967 though I may have seen a couple of matches before that. Suart left in February and Mortensen took over so Mortensen was the first manager I ever idolised.
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Morty's sacking was stupid. He brought in Tony Green and Tommy Hutchison for the price of birdseed. Why have we had a history of idiot owners?
 
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