FourFourTwo spends a week at Harrogate Town with Simon Weaver

The FourFourTwo team spent a week at Harrogate Town with head coach Simon Weaver. When they walked into the training complex, A-ha's 1980s classic Take On Me was playing. The team says that as they approached Weaver's office, they felt the song was no coincidence.

Weaver is the longest-serving head coach in the top five tiers of English football. The team was given the chance to sit beside him in the technical area for this weekend's match against Eastleigh.

Weaver applied for Harrogate's vacant head coach position in 2009. He was 31 at the time and had suffered three leg breaks during his career. He knew his playing days were drawing to a close after taking Ilkeston Town up to the Conference North. His brother had told him in his twenties that, because of the way he read the game, he would become a coach rather than a player.

Weaver, who played as a centre-back for Lincoln City, was living in Wetherby. In his application, he set out a list of his local connections and his ideas for the club. The attention he paid to this detail got him the job, and he has been Harrogate's head coach ever since.