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MARTIN SADDLES UP FOR TOP JOB

O’Connor bids to save Walsall

By John Lyons

OLD DAYS: Martin O’Connor as Walsall assistant manager in 2010
PICTURES: PA Images

GRAFT: Martin O’Connor in action for Walsall against Norwich in 2002

HAVING been appointed interim manager, Martin O’Connor jokes that he has done every job at Walsall bar the groundsman’s.
But he knows it’s won’t be a laughing matter if the Saddlers are relegated to League Two next month.
The 51-year-old was handed the reins on a temporary basis until the end of the season after Walsall axed boss Dean Keates, below...

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