Beattie to Coach Carlisle Wednesday, 13th Feb 2002 13:48
Town legend and Radio Suffolk stalwart Kevin Beattie is to take a small number of coaching sessions at Carlisle United over the next few weeks. Beattie s hometown club see his experience at the top level as something that can help their squad.
United manager Roddy Collins said of the Beat: Kevin was a superb player in his day and if he pass over some of hs knowledge to the lads it s bound to benefit them.
Beattie is currently manager of local Ipswich side Sophlogic.
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It’s a strange turnaround as the Premier League was his playground for a decent spell, Gavin netting 31 Premier appearances for Middlesbrough (1999-2002).
He played with the current manager of England, played under two others (Steve McClaren and Terry Venables) and in that four-season spell in the English top flight acquitted himself well.
“I remember playing against Andy Cole and Dwight Yorke and their movement was just different to anything I had been used to.
“You had to concentrate every second of the game, they were top-class players.
“Once that Manchester United side took the lead against you it was game over. It was a pleasure to play against that group of people,” says Gavin, now 40.
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Ronnie Whelan in full flow for Liverpool in 1983.
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WITH A HEADLINE screaming ‘HUNGER STRIKER NO. 10 DIES’, the Evening Herald hit the capital’s news stands just in time for the after-work rush.
It was Thursday, 20 August 1981 and having gone 60 days without food, Michael Devine, a 27-year-old member of the INLA, was the 10th and final of the H-Block Hunger Strikers to die.