Lynch the Ref!!

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Sometimes it can be hard to get your message across just shouting from the sidelines, but Robbie is very vocal on the field, and that will be important for us. KEVIN LYNCH admits he is already looking to next season after Marine’s frustrating Easter period, but says they will not give up the fight for promotion. That won’t be happening this time. We will be focused on our task. It is a tough place to go, so we can’t afford to go into it in the wrong frame of mind.

They are just three points off a play-off spot, but all of the teams above them have games in hand, as well as a superior goal difference.Kevin Lynch officiated across the Football League during his refereeing career in the 1980s and 90s, and was even a linesman for the UEFA Cup Final between Torino and Ajax in 1992. Kevin acted as assistant referee at the semi-finals of both the FA and Football League Cups, and amongst many appointments overseas as a FIFA Assistant Referee, the highlight was the 1992 UEFA Cup Final between Torino and Ajax. In 1999, Kevin was the Fourth Official at the Football League Centenary Challenge Match between Sunderland and Liverpool.

The community needs to rally round its club, and I think we have a community which does that, to be fair.” If that was the case, then I think we would take a lot of supporters down there, and we would contribute to a great occasion. Anything can happen.” Big name clubs Werder Bremen and Schalke 04were the somewhat surprising relegated teams last campaign, with the two clubs replaced by VfL Bochumand Spielvereinigung Greuther Fürth who are making just their second appearance in the German top flight.Lynch insisted he was delighted with his team’s performance across the weekend, but was honest enough to admit that his side’s promotion chance may have passed - for this season at least. And if his performance on Saturday is anything to go by, then he will be a big influence in other areas as well. I’m pleased we have signed him.” He says, 'do you realise I've got a wife and four kids to support', I said, 'well they won't go hungry for a few days with all those f***ing pies'. However, the pie man got the last laugh after he kept some from Boxing Day only to produce them to Lynch when the fixture went ahead.

In May 2000, Kevin Lynch retired from refereeing Association Football after a career lasting 33 years. For the final 15 years he officiated at professional level, the last 8 of which was spent as a Football League Referee. And Lynch, a former team-mate of Lawton at Vauxhall, along with Marine assistants Peter Cumiskey and Phil Brazier, believes the 32-year-old’s leadership skills will be key if his side are to break into the Evo-Stik Premier Division play-off places this season. Kevin Lynch was always popular amongst fans and spectators, his work as a sports speaker and referee in the Football League has garnered him equal praise and criticism, but he will forever be fondly remembered by British football fans. Notably bowing to the crowd at a Football League match in the last fifteen years of his career Lynch was reprimanded by officials and applauded by fans when he not only joined in but conducted a stadium full of singing fans during a match between Leyton Orient and Brentford.And the manager says their aim is to ensure they head to the Deva Stadium in with a chance, however slim, of securing a top-five spot.

He officiated on a variety of club matches and boasts no less than three appearances at the legendary Wembley Stadium, including officiating the 1989 FA Charity Shield, the 1992 4th Division Play-Off final and also acted as the fourth official for the Football League’s Centenary Challenge Match between Sunderland and Liverpool.

Speaking on the Undr the Cosh podcast, Lynch said: "So, half-past-nine on Boxing Day morning, the secretary rings me and says 'look, I think the pitch is okay, but the chairman's rolled in and he's not happy, and he won't open the gates until you say we're definitely playing'. In many ways he is the ideal replacement for Ryan. He is one for the future, with a great temperament, and he will do himself justice with this opportunity I’m sure. Though still only a small town of a few thousand, Dungiven has been growing over the past twenty years due to the influx of families like the Lynches from the outlying rural areas. It is an almost exclusively nationalist town, garrisoned by a large and belligerent force of RUC and Brits. In civil rights days, however, nationalists were barred from marching in the town centre. Kevin was taken straight to Castlereagh, and, after three days’ questioning, on Saturday, December 4th, he was charged and taken to Limavady to be remanded in custody by a special court. The string of charges included conspiracy to disarm members of the enemy forces, taking part in a punishment shooting, and the taking of ‘legally held’ shotguns.