A former English FA coach Jack Mansell has nothing but fond memories as he revisits Bermuda this week for the first time since he first came here in 1960.

While planning nothing but a low-profile visit with his wife, the former Portsmouth and Brighton left full-back did however find the time to meet Bermuda's Technical Director of Coaching Clyde Best to reminisce -- obviously discussing his brief coaching stint here more than 30 years ago and Best's standout playing career with West Ham United and other prominent clubs.

Mansell enjoyed his luncheon with Best in Hamilton on Monday, as it gave him the opportunity to not only personally meet him for the first time but to walk down memory lane and discuss the days of the past.

Mansell was sent here by the English FA to conduct a coaches qualifying course during the 1960-61 season and while thoroughly enjoying it, he never found the time to come back until now because of his hectic schedule.

An added excitement about his second visit was to give one local club Somerset Trojans and its former coach Conrad Simons the opportunity to see a photo that he (Mansell) had taken when he privately coached them while free of BFA duty.

The photo was taken by a camera presented to Mansell by the team in appreciation of his help.

Simons was then the full time coach of the Somerset Colts, a prominent B Division team at the time that went on to amalgamate with the West End Rovers to form the Somerset Trojans.

Players such as Randy Horton and Reggie Tucker were among them who went on to play for the Bermuda national team. Best at the time was young and probably just a supporter of the team.

Mansell became extra friendly with Francis (Goose) Gosling and Simons, the former being involved in the course.

"Conrad Simons was doing an apprenticeship at the Portsmouth Dockyard in the UK and I played for Portsmouth at the time and he knew me through another player who was a friend of his who also worked at the Dockyard and played for Portsmouth,'' Mansell recalled.

"So when I came out to Bermuda, Conrad looked me up. He said he was running a little team up in Somerset and asked if I would go along one day. I went and they were all so nice that I went for a full week. I didn't expect anything from them, but with the camera I took the photo and this will be the first time the players will have seen it.'' He feels that Bermuda should be proud of Best, recalling his success in England under Ron Greenwood at West Ham.

Mansell said that he was surprised to learn from Best that, after leaving England, he went to play in America and then to Holland and Feyenoord where Mansell had also served as coach. Mansell was also manager of Israel and Bahrain.

"I was managing when Best was in the UK. I knew he was the first Caribbean player to come to England of note. One very interesting thing I didn't know was that when he finished playing at West Ham he went to America and then to Feyenoord, so we had a lot to discuss about his time in Holland.'' Mansell became an FA staff coach in 1951. He started out as an amateur youth player with Manchester United where he was a left winger and then he went to Brighton where he first became a professional. Afterwards he moved to Cardiff City, also in the First Division at the time and then to Portsmouth.

LOOKING BACK -- English FA coach Jack Mansell recalls taking this photo of a what turned out to become a young Somerset Trojan team back in 1960, just before Somerset Colts and West End Rovers joined to become one club. Coach Conrad Simons is seen standing at far left