Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
IT WILL BE A REDS REVOLUTION
CLIFTONVILLE will cast their net wide as they seek a successor to Gerard Lyttle, who was named new Sligo Rovers manager on Friday. Lyttle’s assistant and former Northern Ireland defender Mal Donaghy was in the dugout for Saturday’s 3-1 defeat to Glenavon. But while the Reds have appointed from within in recent years, chairman Gerard Lawlor says the club will depart from that approach. He said: “In the past we have had natural successors, but probably for the first time in a long time, the new manager will be from outside Cliftonville. “It’s important we get the right candidate.” Liam Beckett in 2004 was the last outside appointment, with recent bosses Eddie Patterson, Tommy Breslin and Lyttle all backroom successors.