× THE son of former Barnsley Football Club manager John McSeveney has thanked the many friends and neighbours as well as supporters of the Oakwell team who lined the route of his father’s funeral cortege.
John, who died aged 89 on December 12, was buried on January 5 at the cemetery at Cawthorne, where he had lived since taking the Barnsley job in 1971.
Predeceased by wife Joyce, as well as son Ian, who lives at Penistone, he left daughters Susan Haigh, Karen Breen and Lynne Barker and eight grandchildren.
John, from the central Scottish mining town of Shotts, worked as a pit mechanic and played for Hamilton Academical before becoming a full-time footballer with Sunderland, Cardiff City, Newport County and Hull City.