Harvey - Absolutely Shattered

Former Hereford United player Jimmy Harvey spoke to BBC Radio Lancashire after being sacked this morning from his post at Morecambe.(See earlier story on Bulls News).

"The chairman had a meeting this morning at 9.30. He just said to me quite bluntly that I had been sacked with immediate effect.

"So for someone who has worked so long and hard - I've been totally devestated with that news.

He was asked on what basis he had been sacked (he has recently recovered from heart problems).

"I don't want to say anything at all at the moment. Not everything has been settled.

"It's been most difficult watching the team play, your team out there playing and being managered by somebody else. I couldn't wait to get back in to work and that's what has kept me going, looking forward to it.

"To understand now that all the work that I've done at the club - I'm losing all of that.

"I've invested an awful lot of my life into that club and for it all to end like this, it's out of the blue, totally unexpected.

"I've had nothing but pretty much sucess all the way through here. Building and developing. Okay we didn't get promotion but we were pushing all the while.

Asked about how he felt about his friend Sammy McIlroy and the probability that he would be made manager, Harvey didn't really want to comment.

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