Moran may have left earlier if Sexton had bought his approach, when the Coventry boss approached Atkinson about doing a double deal to be reunited along with his former gamers.
“Instantly, there was a sort of a way of who’s going to be round?” recalled Kevin. “Who’s staying? Who’s going?
“I used to be linked then with leaving. I bear in mind Dave Sexton left and went to Coventry Metropolis and he got here in to purchase Mike Duxbury and myself. However anyone, I do not know who it was, mentioned to Ron Atkinson, ‘simply maintain on to the 2 guys for a second’. I believe he was prepared to nearly take the cash and allow us to go and search for different gamers then as properly as a result of he would not have identified an excessive amount of about it.
“After which, ultimately, each Mike and myself stayed on loads longer than perhaps anticipated.”
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