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Interesting appointment, to put it mildly! Caught everybody out, including Dick Marshall at the echo <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

 

Apparently, since retiring from playing for P*mp*y, Justin has been coaching in the Spurs' academy and working towards his UEFA qualification ( Link so it would appear that along with the appointment of Tony Cross as reserve/youth manager we're looking to focus on youth, which in my book is a good thing.

 

Further developments are awaited with interest!

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Justin still lives in Billericay as far as I am aware and was at New Lodge several times last season.

 

I think this is a very positive move by the club bringing in a young Manager who will have good contacts and bring new ideas to the club.

 

Well done and good luck Justin.

 

 

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I see this as a good appointment as it gives someone younger a chance at management. The fact he is known in football and by the fans should mean some good high gates at the start of the season.

 

Justin will also be hungry for success and eager to impress in his first job in management. It will be interesting now to see who he brings in. It is good concentrating on young players for the future, but the squad needs some more experience as well.

 

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Great appointment as he has played at the highest level and he can put such experience to good use. Also he good maybe try and bring in some Spurs old boys and with his repuation in football players are going to want to work with him so he will help bring in other players to the club. The assistant will ahve to be someone with experience at ryman league.

 

Also the appointment of a youth development coach

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BILLERICAY APPOINT JUSTIN EDINBURGH AS BOSS

20/05/2003 - Taking from the Non League Daily website

 

Ryman League Premier Division club Billericay Town have announced the shock appointment of former Tottenham Hotspur, Portsmouth and Southend United defender Justin Edinburgh as their new manager.

 

Edinburgh replaces Gary Calder, who quit the Essex club after cash cuts led to him losing the services of a number of established first-team players during the second part of last season, which led to the club finishing in twelfth position, which was the lowest placing of his four-year managerial reign at New Lodge.

 

It had been thought that former Southend United boss Paul Clark was favourite for the post, and also had the likes of Alan Devonshire, who recently quit league rivals Maidenhead United, and ex-Braintree Town and Maldon Town boss Ben Embery mentioned as possibles.

 

Brentwood-born Edinburgh (pictured), still only 33, started his career with Southend but made only 37 senior appearances before moving to Spurs for £150,000 after then boss Terry Venables had seen what he was capable of during a loan spell at White Hart Lane.

 

He went on to make over 200 appearances for Spurs, winning the FA Cup in 1991, before moving onto Portsmouth in March 2000, where injury finally ended his playing days at the end of the 2001/02 season.

 

One of his first tasks in his new role will be to appoint an assistant. However, it has also been announced that former Billericay player Tony Cross has returned to the club as reserve and youth development manager.

 

 

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Welcome Justin!. Time to call in all those favours you are owed (I hear Sheringham is available). Justin presented the awards at the Billericay Youth end-of-season bash last Saturday, I hope he maintains those links and can once again encourage the club to further Youth football in the area, we don't want any local talent slipping through our fingers!. Shall we go the whole hog and adopt the cockerel as the Teams emblem, then we can crow so loud they'd hear us on Pikey Island.

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Welcome to Billericay Town FC Justin. Have to admit my money was on Devonshire. But never-the-less, this seems a very good move the more I think about it. How many non-league clubs have an ex-Premiership player as thier manager? A new coach and reserve/youth team manager should hopefully help to freshen things up a bit at New Lodge which lets face it, has been very stale for a while! A Billericay boy as well!!

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