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MICK KEARNS was a product of Coventry City's youth policy before there was even a policy.
He was a great servant for the club and is the only man to have made over 350 appearances for Coventry City as his sole club.
Along with George Curtis and Brian Hill, he holds the unique record of having played in five different divisions of the league with one club.
He was spotted playing for Stockingford Villa and joined City as an amateur in 1955.
His first game was for the 'A' team against Birch Coppice. He combined his football with work as an apprentice motor mechanic at Massey Ferguson and soon impressed the City management with his skill and poise.
A great reader of the game, Mick became a regular first-teamer in 1958 and barely missed a game over the next nine years.
Mick was one of a few players that Jimmy Hill did not jettison soon after his arrival in 1961 and it was the Farmer-Curtis-Kearns half-back line which would be the constant thing as City climbed out of the lower reaches of Division Three and won two promotions in four years.
Hill later converted him to full-back and Mick, although preferring the wing-half role, happily obliged.
He won a Third Division medal in 1964 and a Second Division medal in 1967.
Soon after City reached Division One, Mick's knee problems got so bad he was forced to retire.
Owned the Palace bingo hall in Bedworth for many years
Came back to the club as a coach during the Curtis and Sillett era
