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Damian Spellman

Retirement is not for me – Lennie Lawrence still going strong at 77

Hartlepool manager Lennie Lawrence still has no plans to retire at the age of 77 (Nick Potts/PA) - (PA Archive)

Lennie Lawrence insists retirement is not for him as steels himself for another promotion fight at the age of 77.

Lawrence, who made his name as a manager in a near nine-year spell at Charlton during the 1980s and early 1990s before steering Middlesbrough into the Premier League, will spend Saturday afternoon in the dugout at the Prestige Group Stadium, the home of National League Hartlepool, with his sights firmly set on a securing a play-off berth.

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