Eddie May RIP

Some sad news after the joys of yesterday. Eddie May died suddenly yesterday aged 68, his son Paul who is a massive Charlton fan was at Carlisle yesterday I am led to believe.

Eddie joined Lennie Lawrence as assistant manager at Charlton in 1983 during a tumultuous, but against all odds successful period of our history. He has legendary status at Cardiff where he won the Division 3 title as their manager in 1983, and despite being born in Essex, Eddie spent almost his entire playing career in Wales.

Aside from managing Cardiff, he also played for Wrexham 334 times and captained them to an epic Cup Winners’ Cup showdown with then European giants Anderlecht in 1976. He also played for Swansea and Newport, where he had a brief spell in charge of County in trying of circumstances after they had been relegated out of the Football League.

Barry Town, Haverfordwest, Llanelli and Porthcawl also felt his huge presence and he managed abroad in Iceland, Ireland, Kenya, Norway, Qatar, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

A number of years ago after being contacted by his son Paul, I wrote a long post on Eddie’s time as a player for then NASL team Chicago Sting. You can read that here.

Very sad news. RIP Eddie.