BROWN IS A SM-ASH HIT!

CLUB legend and new boss Ash Brown plans to take Coalville Town back to the future with the type of committed core he led as a player.

- Andy Mitchell

The relaunched Ravens succeeded in bagging an 11th-hour place at Step 6 for the new season after former chairman Glyn Rennocks stepped away and withdrew the club from the Southern League.

It left those behind the bid to rescue senior men's football with little time to waste but at least they could turn to Brown, a man who made more than 500 appearances for Coalville, captaining the side to the Midland Alliance title and in an FA Vase final appearance at Wembley in 2011.

He guided Lutterworth Athletic to safety in the United Counties League Division One last season - the league Coalville has been allocated to - and had planned more trips to Owen Street before a whirlwind couple of weeks.

Brown told The NLP: "It was almost as if fate had put us back together.