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Lennie Lawrence: What Makes Him Tick!
By: Andy Stephenson
Date: 03/09/2001
ANDY STEPHENSON of "The Grim Exile" met up with Grimsby manager Lennie Lawrence on the pre-season Scandinavian tour and gives us an overview of his conversation with Lennie which helped him to understand the challenges he faces and his management style.
This interview with Lennie Lawrence appeared in the June/July 2001 edition of It's a Grim Exile - a bi-monthly magazine containing news, views and items of interest both from and for exiled GTFC supporters. Details of how to subscribe to the fanzine can be found at the end of the interview.
During our recent trip to Denmark and Sweden - details of which you will see elsewhere - we attended the friendly Vs Ystad FF. After the game I was able to talk to LENNIE LAWRENCE, first as part of a group and, later in the bar, he very kindly gave me a short interview. My intention was to ask him questions that he could give a full and honest answer to, mainly in the areas of planning and strategy, rather than questions that would result in a 'politicians' answer. In that way it will hopefully make for a more interesting article, rather than a series of recycled media quotes.
The first question, which was the key to much of the rest of the conversat
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Lennie Lawrence
English football manager (born 1947)
Robin Michael Lawrence, commonly known as Lennie Lawrence, (born 12 December 1947) is an English football manager. He is assistant manager and non-executive director at National League side Hartlepool United.
Lawrence was a semi-professional at Croydon, Carshalton Athletic and Sutton United before becoming caretaker manager of Plymouth Argyle in 1978. He went on to manage Charlton Athletic, Middlesbrough (during their debut season in the Premier League), Bradford City, Luton Town and Grimsby Town and Cardiff City.[1] He is one of a select few managers to have managed over 1,000 games.[2]
Since 2005 Lawrence has worked at a number of clubs as either part of the coaching staff or in a Director of Football role. He joined Stevenage in June 2020 as a managerial advisor, to begin at either the restart of the 2019–20 season or the start of the 2020–21 season,[3] following three years as the management consultant to Newport County, Lawrence left this role in early November 2020.
Playing career
[edit]Lawrence turned out at non-league level for Croydon, Carshalton Athletic and Sutton United during his semi-professional career.