Happy birthday Reidy! Our legendary gaffer spent nearly eight years at the club, overseeing two promotions to the Premier League and some of the most exciting football in living memory for many fans.
Reid enjoyed a long career as a player with teams like Bolton, Everton and Manchester City. He made the gradual transition to management with the role as player/manager with City, before returning to football with Southampton and seeing out his career with spells at Notts County and Bury.
After retirement, his first experience of full on club management was with us. Mick Buxton was sacked after we’d lost six out of seven games – that run culminating in a 2-0 defeat at Barnsley which left us in 20th place in the Championship. Bob Murray gave Reidy seven games to save our season and reader, he did it. Craig Russell’s last-minute winner against Sheff Utd set things rolling, and while we might only have averaged a goal a game, we lost only once and finished four points clear of the drop.