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Newcastle's most memorable managers: Richard Dinnis was a catastrophic boss; In the latest part of his series on memorable managers, John Gibson recalls the reign of Richard Dinnis - who was a hopeless Newcastle United boss.

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Byline: John Gibson

Richard Dinnis was the manager elected by the wrong people whose catastrophic string of defeats prevented John Carver entering the dark history of Newcastle.

Carver, essentially a coach like Dinnis, lost eight Premier League matches on the bounce near the end of the last campaign whereas Dinnis set the bar at 10 successive top flight losses.

He did it at the beginning of season 1977-78 after player power had forced United to elevate him from first team coach to boss.

Dinnis was a school teacher with little pedigree who arrived as right hand man to Gordon Lee upon the retirement of Joe Harvey.

However when Lee took flight to Everton the players swung behind Dinnis and forced the appointment which was well beyond Richard's capabilities.

There was no question he was out of his depth, thrown into the English Channel with nought but water wings and told to swim over to France.

The danger of players appointing their manager is...

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