Lynch the Ref!!

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KEVIN LYNCH believes young goalkeeper Callum Williams can shine in the absence of regular custodian Ryan McMahon. Likewise Neil Prince, a former player at the Arriva Stadium, is planning for next season with Bootle but is certain to have caught the eye of the Mariners’ hierarchy after an impressive first campaign as a manager. Later on, while working in England, he was a reserve for the Dungiven senior football team in the 1976 County Derry final. Spending the majority of his career refereeing association Football Kevin Lynch spent the final eight years of his career referring for the Football League, he acted as the assistant referee at the semi-finals of both the FA and Football League Cups for almost a decade and held many appointments overseas. He worked as a football speaker and assistant referee for FIFA for a number of years and counts overseeing the 1992 UEFA Cup Final between Torino and Ajax amongst his career highlights.

Kevin’s team, St. Canice’s, was beaten 0-9 to 0-3 by Sarsfields of Ballerin, and he is described in the match programme as “a strong player and a useful hurler”. Within a short space of time after this final, Kevin would be in jail, as would two of his team mates on that day, Eunan Brolly and Sean Coyle. QUALITIES We have a great chance,” he says. “We have Hednesford, then FC United of Manchester, then Kendal. They are three huge games, and they could shape our season. But Kevin never intended settling in England and on one of his occasional visits home (“he just used to turn up”), in August 1976, he decided to stay in Dungiven. INLA McMahon suffered a broken thumb during Tuesday night’s goalless draw with Nantwich Town at the Arriva Stadium, and will have an operation today which will rule him out for a number of weeks.And the manager says their aim is to ensure they head to the Deva Stadium in with a chance, however slim, of securing a top-five spot. Lynch’s side remain firmly in the Evo-Stik League’s Premier Division play-off hunt despite dropping valuable home points in midweek. And the manager feels the next three games could be key to his side’s ambitions. He takes charge of a team currently 20th in the table and who are away to Rushall Olympic on Saturday. Midfielder Thomas Moore donned the gloves on Tuesday, but Lynch will call upon the talented Williams for this weekend’s clash with Hendesford Town, and has no doubts about the youngster’s pedigree.

He has been out for two weeks since he was released by (Conference North side) Stalybridge Celtic, but he is a fit lad who keeps himself in tip top shape. Sullivan has worked wonders at Cammell Laird, transforming them from relegation candidates to promotion hopefuls in the space of a season. The Kirklands side won a reprieve from the Evo-Stik First Division North drop in the summer but on Tuesday night confirmed their place in the play-offs.I think a lot of fans can see what we are trying to build this season, with the young players and the way we are set up.