Farewell to Keith, a manager apart - The Mirror

Keith Alexander's old office at Lincoln City's Sincil Bank ground was one of the most chaotic places I have visited.

Keith Alexander's old office at Lincoln City's Sincil Bank ground was one of the most chaotic places I have visited.

If you didn't know Alexander was such a busy man, you would have thought somebody had burgled it. When I spoke to him, he had just returned to work less than a month after suffering a brain aneurysm.

Alexander (above) was one of the most passionate managers in the Football League - and the lowest paid. He was on £35,000 a year at Lincoln and wouldn't have been on much more at Macclesfield when he died last week at the horrendously young age of 53.

His death was a great shock and sadness to anyone lucky enough to have met him.