William (Billy) Horner.
Born Cassop 7th September 1942.
As well as managing Pools for almost 9 years and playing twice Billy was a really nice guy.
During his time as Pools manager its true to say that Billy never had a penny to rub his arse with. They were no doubt the darkest days of Hartlepool's History but he stuck with it through thin and thinner.
He started his career at Boro in 1959 making 200 appearances before dropping in to the reserves as coach and player, he was released and joined Darlo and made over 200 appearances for them. Billy became manager at darlo in 74-75 finishing bottom Billy decided to make a move to a bigger club and became Ken Hales assistant at Pools.
Billy became Pools manager in the same year 1975 keeping the club going with non league players and old pros well past their sell by date.
Billy was the driving force behind the Pools youth team set up and he got his rewards when the youth team won the intermediate league with 2 players to go onto big things: Andrew and David Linighan. After a brief spell at York Billy came back to his first love Pools were he was director of the school of excellence.
The days that Billy held the club together are long gone but without people like Billy Horner we might not be here today Billy even though he had massive problems with Pools always had time for the fans and hand on heart this man was a legend for Pools.
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Born Cassop 7th September 1942.
As well as managing Pools for almost 9 years and playing twice Billy was a really nice guy.
During his time as Pools manager its true to say that Billy never had a penny to rub his arse with. They were no doubt the darkest days of Hartlepool's History but he stuck with it through thin and thinner.
He started his career at Boro in 1959 making 200 appearances before dropping in to the reserves as coach and player, he was released and joined Darlo and made over 200 appearances for them. Billy became manager at darlo in 74-75 finishing bottom Billy decided to make a move to a bigger club and became Ken Hales assistant at Pools.
Billy became Pools manager in the same year 1975 keeping the club going with non league players and old pros well past their sell by date.
Billy was the driving force behind the Pools youth team set up and he got his rewards when the youth team won the intermediate league with 2 players to go onto big things: Andrew and David Linighan. After a brief spell at York Billy came back to his first love Pools were he was director of the school of excellence.
The days that Billy held the club together are long gone but without people like Billy Horner we might not be here today Billy even though he had massive problems with Pools always had time for the fans and hand on heart this man was a legend for Pools.
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