This a great read - how Mike Newell became Luton Town manager in 2002.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/oct/12/the-forgotten-story-of-luton-town-manager-idol

i am sure  "how he lost his job at Grimsby"  would also be just as surreal a read

The whole set up at Kenilworth Road was run by complete and utter fruit loops at that time. Queer club Luton, alienated just about every football fan in the country when they became the only League club to endorse Thatcher's anti hooliganism ID cards because their chairman was David Evans, a rabid Tory MP.