’JUSTIN LED FROM THE FRONT, HE WAS A SUPREME MOTIVATOR!’

By CHRIS DUNLAVY

JIMMY Dack will never forget the day Newport County ended their 25-year exile from the Football League. Tipped for relegation.
Constructed from waifs and strays. When the 2012-13 campaign kicked off, not even the most optimistic supporter dreamed the season would end in a shower of ticker tape at Wembley.
Yet that’s exactly what happened as a side built by the late Justin Edinburgh notched two last-gasp goals to clinch play-off victory over Wrexham.
“It was one of the best days I’ve ever had in life,” says Dack, assistant to Edinburgh in Newport&r...

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