LINNETS: For some time now, I have been looking at the records of Lynn managers over the years, and tried to find the best.
This of course, is my personal choice, and can and will be disputed, no doubt about that, but it will cause some talk amongst supporters.
In recent times, Peter Morris's first time around must be the choice – no superstars, just a good all round team, that attacked well and really dug in defence when needed.
Biff/Boony won the league, Gary Mills got us out of relegation – oh how we could do with his defence today. Robinson/Fuff, say no more.
Tommy Taylor should have finished the job off. John Gidman, and a man who has worked hard for this club, without too much success, Keith Rudd in those great Northern Premier League days.
I now come down to my final three who I believe must be up at the top, in fact there is nobody who I could say was head and shoulders above the rest.
Joint second goes to Len Richley and Reg Davis. Davis because of his entertaining and attacking football.
Richley because of the cup runs and promotion in 1964, the FA Cup five years in a row into the second round proper, and of course the third round in the 61/62 season.
But to my mind, the top man was Paul Todd, or Toddy, as we knew him, who won the cup and league double in his first season, and maintained the team to a very good level in the strong Midland League.
Not only that but in the 53/54 season, the club as a whole won 11 cups.
The quality of players who he persuaded to come to The Walks was good.
It also showed the contacts he must have had in the game.
Some of the names I can recall are Terry Ryder, Keith Bannister, John Neal (who went on to manage Chelsea, Wrexham and Middlesborough), Dowie, Vickers, goalkeepers Taylor and Crookes, and many more.
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