HAMPTON and Richmond Borough manager Alan Dowson is to go full-time next season, writes Richard Parsons.
The club’s new board has shown its faith in him by awarding him a 12-month rolling contract. He will take up his extended role in July. It will be Dowson’s first fulltime job in football, at the age of 46, after part-time roles at his previous clubs, Walton & Hersham and Kingstonian.
Despite having to say farewell to staff, pupils and parents at Weston Green primary school in Thames Ditton, where he has worked for 20 years, Dowson can’t wait to get started in his ne...