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unveiled as new Blues chief by Chris Boden ■ FORMER Bamber Bridge
r^manager Paul Byron is 'r.;^xpected to be unveiled as ' the new Clitheroe boss at
tomorrow’s annual meet ing. I understand the 39-
year-old was offered the post after meeting with chairman John Robinson and caretaker'manager Martin Eatough. And he has decided to
take up the challenge. Blues chairman Robin
son was keeping his cards close to his chest, saying: “All I will say is tha t the new man has UniBond League experience as a manager.” But the appointment is
set to be rubber-stamped at the club’s AGM, with Eatough expected to resume as assistant boss, the role he filled under Lee Sculpher. The former Brig chief is
thought to have beaten off competition from Blues midfielder S tu ar t Tod- hunter and former Kendal Town assistant boss Phil Brown for the post, while applicants such as Kevin Langley and Ashley Hoskin failed to make the three-man shortlist. Byron recently resigned
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from the hot-seat a t Iron- gate after three years at the helm, following a similar stint in charge of the reserve side at Brig.
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; Satui^y^ December Ufh^ Kick-off3pm.^ ‘ - Both he and Eatough
were together at Barrow and Lancaster, helping the Dolly Blues to the Uni- Bond First Division league and cup double in 1996. Byron, who was on
Blackburn Rovers’ books as a youngster, made one Football League appear ance with Hartlepool Unit ed before also featuring for Southport, Accrington Stanley and Morecambe. Injury ended his playing
career prematurely, but after guiding the second string at Irongate, he was handed the first team job three years ago with the club in financial difficul ties.
Despite his predecessors
Jimmy Willis and Tony Greenwood stepping down because of the straitjacket they had to work with, Byron gave Brig stability, despite being unable to pre vent the club’s first-ever relegation. But in his first full sea- ■
SET TO TAKE OVER: Paul Byron
son in charge, Bamber league restructuring, Bridge finished a creditable 13th in the UniBond League First Division, and then beat that last term, finishing 10th to earn a place back in the Premier Division after the non
However, with crowds
not significantly improv ing, and Brig exiting the FA Cup and Trophy, the books had to balanced, and Byron’s hands further tied in terms of his budget.
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He took the decision to
step down, and now is set for a new era at Clitheroe, and maintaining the good work of Sculpher, who left the Blues in a fine position to try and maintain their First Division status. . Eatough is expected to
again be in charge of the side against old FA Vase rivals Belper Town at Shawbridge on Saturday - Clitheroe knocked the Der byshire side out en route to the Wembley final in 1996. But Byron is due to be
present to nm the rule over his new charges, before tak ing the helm the following week for the game against the same opponents in the UniBnd Chairman’s Cup at Christchurch Meadow.
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NEW Read pro Thomas Odoyo in action for Kenya, (s)
Read swoop for the ‘Black Botham’
by Chris Boden
AS they aim for a fourth successive Ribblesdale League title. Read have signed the “Black Both am”, Kenyan all-rounder "Thomas Odoyo as profes sional for the 2005 season. The 26-year-old current
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One-Day International ace replaces Danny Law, having been recommended by former Burnley paid man Mudassar Nazar. Chairman Wilf Wood-
house was delighted to snap up the right-hand bat and right-arm medium pace bowler: “Thomas is the first current interna tional Read have signed as
■professional, and after winning a hat-trick of titles, we are going all-out to win the league for a fourth successive time. “We believe Thomas has
the pedigree and talent to do the business for us. . “Danny Law couldn’t
rejoin us for various rea sons, and we thank him for his efforts, but Thomas was recommended by Mudassar, who is the Kenyan chief coach.” Odoyo was first capped
by Kenya as a 17 year old a t the 1996 World Cup, and since then, the whole hearted allrounder has been a key performer. He has gone on to become the first, and so
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far only, Kenyan bowler to reach 50 ODI wickets, and he has done the mini dou ble, by also compiling over 1,000 ODI runs. His bustling seamers
and powerful middle-order batting led some commen tators to compare him to I Ian Botham. Although it took him
until his seventh match to take his first ODI wicket, ( during a spell of 3-25 . against Pakistan in Nairo- ® bi, he has since emerged as one of the mainstays of the Kenyan team. In 1997-98, he shared in
a then-world record ODI stand for the seventh- wicket of 119 with Tony Suji at home to Zimbabwe. However, injury forced
him out of Kenya’s trip to the West Indies for the 2003-04 Carib Beer Cup first-class competition, but he was fit again for selec tion for the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy, where he l is t featured against Pakistan at Edgbaston. In One-Day Interna
tionals, he has 1,135 runs, with a high score of 53, at an average of 21.41, while with the ball, he has 59 wickets at 37.72.
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