THE NON-LEAGUE FERGIE
When Jim Bentley ended his eight-year tenure as Morecambe manager in late October, Wycombe’s Gareth Ainsworth was declared English football’s new longest-serving gaffer at a single club. On the Kent coast, Neil Cugley knew better.
The 63-year-old manager of Folkestone Invicta in the Isthmian Premier Lifetime Achievement Award – was handed the Cheriton Road reins in 1996 but already knew Folkestone like the back of his hand, having grown up and gone to school there. He even played for the town’s cricket team.
