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× THE son of former Barnsley Football Club manager John McSeveney has thanked the many friends and neighbours as well as supporters of the Oakwell team who lined the route of his father’s funeral cortege. John, who died aged 89 on December 12, was buried on January 5 at the cemetery at Cawthorne, where he had lived since taking the Barnsley job in 1971. Predeceased by wife Joyce, as well as son Ian, who lives at Penistone, he left daughters Susan Haigh, Karen Breen and Lynne Barker and eight grandchildren. John, from the central Scottish mining town of...

× John McSeveney's spell as Barnsley manager was short and not especially sweet, but one he looked back on as a crucial part of a learning process which helped keep him involved in football for a further 30 years. The Oakwell boss between September 1971 and October 1972 – a particularly testing time in the club’s history – the Scotsman, who has died aged 89, settled in the town. A well as having successful spells as assistant manager at Rotherham and Sheffield United, McSeveney’s work took him as far afield as Ireland, Guyana and the United Arab Emirates, but he alw...