I’D LOVE TO GIVE ADAMS ELL FOR TURFING ME OUT
by MIKE WALTERS
KEVIN ELLISON didn’t like the way he was shown the door by Derek Adams.
Now the Football League’s oldest striker is preparing to take the shine off Adams’ season by firing Newport County into the third tier.
At 42, Ellison tuned up for his Wembley date with Morecambe by reporting to St George’s Park for his A Licence coaching badge, hours after scoring the winner in the semi-final at Forest Green.
Ellison had already registered his anger at the way Adams
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cast him into the wilderness at old club Morecambe, after 88 goals in 391 games, when he scored in Newport’s win earlier this season.
He was resigned to working in a factory after Adams bombed him out until Michael Flynn offered him an encore in Wales.
Since he became the oldest goalscorer in play-off history,
Ellison has been taking care of the future. He said: “I want to squeeze every last drop out of football if I can.
“I could have been working on the production line in a factory if Newport hadn’t come calling and I decided to give it one last shot.
“Somehow it was written in the stars that I would end the season playing at Wembley against Morecambe, a club where I had so many happy times. It’s the perfect script.”
Ellison felt a basic courtesy was missing from Adams. He added: “When I went to see him, he chased me out of the office like a naughty schoolkid and that was the last conversation I had with him.”
Morecambe finished the season five points better off than Newport although the Welsh side beat Adams’ men home and away.
Adams said: “We know the occasion and what it is.
“It’s a final of a competition and you really can’t treat it as another game.
“What we can do is try and focus on what we can do, the same as we have done all season.”