- Tony Ricketts
Tony Ricketts is a former semi-professional football player, and currently manager of Weston-super-Mare.
As a player, at 24 years old , he was offered a 2 year contact with Bristol City, which he refused.In 1979 he joined Bath City, where he became first a coach and then manager, spending seven years at the club in all. He played 700 games at conference level in his career.cite web |url=http://www.thefa.com/Womens/PremierLeague/NewsAndFeatures/Postings/2003/03/43425.htm |title=Managers' Monthly: Tony Ricketts |work=TheFA.com |date=2003-03-19 |accessdate=2008-05-16]
After leaving Bath, Ricketts worked for the
Gloucestershire FA running the county's representative teams, as well as the ladies and under-18s sides. From here he earned a job with the Bristol Rovers women's team, who at the time were in theFA Women's Premier League Southern Division . In his first season at Rovers the team finished runners-up to the league's only professional side,Fulham L.F.C. , and in his second year the team cantered to the league title, winning it with a quarter of the season still to spare.After managing the women's side he went on to manage Bristol Rovers' under-18s' team, and was later appointed manager at Weston-super-Mare.
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