The Club's third manager in five years was Edward (Ned) Liddell, who was then the club's chief scout.
He was destined to last less time than either of his two immediate predecessors and in each his two seasons at the helm, both in the Third Division, the club finished in a lower position than it had 12 months earlier.
Yet for all of this, Liddell was an interesting man whose football career began at the turn of the century and lasted in one form or other up to his death, at the age of 90, in 1968.
He was born in Sunderland in May 1878, and as a wing half played for clubs as varied as East End Black Watch (1901), Whitburn (1903) and Seaham White Star before going on to Sunderland, Southampton, Gainsborough Trinity, Clapton Orient and Southend. Arsenal in 1914 was his final League club as a player.