Jimmy Knox

City took a chance when they signed the young inside-forward from Raith Rovers in 1957 but he failed to make the grade in league football and played just two games in one of the most depressing seasons of the club’s history. He left the club to join Rugby Town in 1958 and had a successful playing career in non-league football with Rugby and Lockheed Leamington but is even more famous in non-league circles for his management feats with AP Leamington in the 1970s and VS Rugby in the 1980s. He took Leamington into the inaugural Alliance Premier League (now the Conference) and Rugby to a FA Vase triumph and the Southern League Premier Division. Jimmy’s younger brother Archie was assistant at Old Trafford and Rangers and briefly at Highfield Road under Eric Black in 2004.