NOW I’M HUNGRY FOR NEW PROJECT

By Chris Dunlavy

LEAGUE One, League Two, National League – John Coleman doesn’t care. He just wants to manage a club with scope for ‘doing an Accrington’.
Accy were languishing in the Northern Premier League First Division when Coleman arrived in 1999, but within seven years had returned to the EFL for the first time since the original club folded in 1965.
After brief spells at Southport, Sligo and Rochdale, he returned to the Crown Ground in 2014 and four years later won the League Two title.
“When we were winning the Unibond First Division, I do...

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