Ben Smith reports on Pascal Chimbonda's adventure at Skelmersdale United - and how he hopes to inspire other black managers
It's difficult to know what was going through Pascal Chimbonda’s mind as he sat on the bench at the 2006 World Cup final. That 18 years later he would be in the dugout of a ninth-tier West Lancashire club with a Tesco Metro as the backdrop is unlikely.
But as the recently appointed boss of Skelmersdale United it is a setting with which he is becoming familiar.
Chimbonda took the club’s reins in October. Since then, it has been a whirlwind – sometimes quite literally (his...