Southampton fotball

thought his efforts staving off relegation at Southampton had been belatedly

Peter Rees, who was on the Wales FA Council that interviewed Hughes for the job in 1999, agrees. 'You have to start somewhere and Mark cut his teeth with Wales. He was the youngest manager of Wales in living history, and was still playing at Southamp....

Students Jack Steer and Emma Bailey, both 17, travelled from Southampton in the hope of getting to see one of the top players.

During this unsettled period he rejected an approach from local rivals Southampton to become their manager, but after making the last of his 167 League and FA Cup appearances for his home-town club, as a 32-year-old in early 1953, he stepped up his i....