Allen raids former club
07 Jun 2007 - 08:41:28
New Leicester City manager Martin Allen has raided former club MK Dons to reunite his backroom staff at the Walkers Stadium.
Allen has brought assistant-manager Adrian Whitbread, coach Dave Hockaday and sports scientist Damien Doyle to the Championship club after the quartet worked together successfully last season at the National Hockey Stadium.
"Adrian has a fantastic work ethic and is a great organiser," Allen told the club's official website.
"He is an up-and-coming coach who has shown great dedication to learn, improve and develop.
"Dave is a good sounding board. He was first-team coach at Watford and has got the experience of getting promotion to the Premiership. I will learn from him.
"Damien's work involves prehab and rehab, speed training, individual power programmes, core ball work and body conditioning work for the players.
"Gone are the days of just managing the team and hoping for the best.
"We are constantly looking at new ideas to help us gain any advantage we can."