Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2009 23:02:02 GMT
Around twenty-five years ago my work with young people in Preston, Lancs brought me into contact with a training organisation from Merseyside who operated in the sport and leisure field. Their training manager was a chap called Les Parry who I immediately thought must be the old Tranmere player of the 1970s. As soon as I met him for the first time I had to ask and got the reply: "No mate, that's not me, but I do support them."
Support them? He's sounds as if he's now Tranmere's bloody manager after being physio for fifteen years. The penny hadn't dropped but, after talking to a friend on the Wirral tonight, he knows people who encountered this particular Les in the youth training world. From what I can gather it appears he got into physio work a few years after I knew him, found work at Prenton Park in the early 1990s - where he became something of a character - and has now been appointed manager until the end of the season. He's pretty much a management figure with Shaun Garnett and Wayne Allison doing the coaching. I've got to find out if it's the same bloke....
www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/2757489/Les-Parry-Im-the-physio-the-cook-I-do-all-the-shopping-oh-and-Im-also-caretaker-boss.html
Support them? He's sounds as if he's now Tranmere's bloody manager after being physio for fifteen years. The penny hadn't dropped but, after talking to a friend on the Wirral tonight, he knows people who encountered this particular Les in the youth training world. From what I can gather it appears he got into physio work a few years after I knew him, found work at Prenton Park in the early 1990s - where he became something of a character - and has now been appointed manager until the end of the season. He's pretty much a management figure with Shaun Garnett and Wayne Allison doing the coaching. I've got to find out if it's the same bloke....
www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/2757489/Les-Parry-Im-the-physio-the-cook-I-do-all-the-shopping-oh-and-Im-also-caretaker-boss.html
I've not seen it claimed anywhere that THIS Les Parry is the former Tranmere Rovers player of the same name, and from what I can remember; if he was then he has shrunk considerably in size and turned ginger!