After his appointment as FC Halifax Town manager in the summer of 2009, Neil Aspin won three promotions in four seasons to achieve his aim of restoring the club to the top tier of non-league football.But that’s only part of the story of his six-and-a-bit years in charge of The Shaymen.
In the first of a special two-part feature, Aspin tells the Courier’s FC Halifax Town writer Tom Scargill about joining the club, working with Jamie Vardy and those three promotions.
FC Halifax Town’s inaugural season hadn’t exactly gone to plan.
The newly-formed club had been made favourites to win the Northern Premier League Division One North title under Jim Vince.
But they ended the 2008-09 season in eighth, five points adrift of the play-offs.
If that was a false start though, they would soon be making up for lost time.
