Fourteen years down the pan – Flynn

By Mark Currie, Daily Post

25 April 2008

EX-Wrexham manager Brian Flynn has delivered a damning verdict on events at the Racecourse that culminated this week in the club’s relegation from the Football League.

Tuesday night’s 2-0 defeat at Hereford United condemned the Dragons to the drop and Flynn, Wrexham manager between 1989 and 2001, described it as a major blow for football in North Wales.

“In many ways it is 14 years of hard work that has gone down the pan,” Flynn said yesterday during a return to the Racecourse to promote the forthcoming Wales Under-21 clash with old rivals England.

“It should never have happened and considering the scare that Wrexham were given last year, lightning should not strike twice.”

But Flynn, who is now Wales intermediate manager with responsibility for the under-17, under-19 and under-21 sides, declined to apportion blame for Wrexham’s demise.

“I spent so much of my career here, as a player and then as manager, that I still say ‘we’ when I talk about Wrexham,” he added.

“That’s how important it is to me and I can’t believe that after everything we worked so hard to achieve it has come to this.”