The arrival of a benefactor and a bright young manager have made an unlikely success story in the old port town.
Declan Bogue IT’S TEMPTING TO say that what has happened to Larne FC over the past seven years has a touch of the divine intervention.
On a good day, they might have got 200 through the gates, but they had an ambitious young manager in Tiernan Lynch who had some revolutionary ideas for a football club if only things were different. As a player, his sessions involved running around The Waterworks until he vomited. In America, the coaching involved 11 v 0 drills where coaches would stop and direct players through plays. He lapped it all up.When he came back, he coached a bit with Cliftonville underage sides and then went to Glentoran, serving under four different managers, before he got a break with Larne.
Bear in mind the shape that Larne were in at the time. Lynch used to wander the streets calling into businesses trying to scrounge a few quid here and there for the club. They are a full-time operation and are churning out players under the scholarship programme, which is run in conjunction with the Steven Gerrard Academy and Larne High School.
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