THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA

LEGENDARY STATUS: Jim Bentley spent almost 18 years at Morecambe, as a player and a manager. Inset: The statue of Eric Morecambe on the town’s seafront
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By Jon Couch
AS THE late Eric Morecambe once hilariously quipped, ‘I’m playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order’.
Morecambe’s classic sketch with sidekick Ernie Wise and top orchestra conductor Andre Previn will go down as one of the most iconic in British comedy history.
But it may have also struck a chord with Jim Bentley, who this week d...