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SHRIMPS STALWART DEPARTS

Jim: ‘It was right time to move on’

By Jon Couch

LOYAL SERVANT: Jim Bentley was the longest-serving manager in the EFL and, Insets, the Eric Morecambe statue and Bentley playing for the Shrimps in 2009
PICTURE: PA Images

THE late Eric Morecambe once quipped: “I’m playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order.” Morecambe’s classic sketch with sidekick Ernie Wise and top orchestra conductor Andre Previn will go down as one of the most iconic in British comedy history.
But it may have also struck a chord with Jim Bentley, who this wee...

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