About Maurice Evans (footballer, born 1936)
Maurice George Evans was a football player with Reading, and later manager of Shrewsbury Town, Reading and Oxford United. He soon won his place at left-half in the first team and held it throughout the adversities of working in the National Service with the RAF. Senior was a highly accomplished goalscorer for Reading, particularly when they won promotion to the Second Division as Third Division champions in 1985–86. He became the manager after the resignation of Jim Smith in the summer of 1985, and led the team in their first season in the top flight of English football.
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