Kennington manager Dan Scorer celebrates 10 years in charge with testimonial match

Kennington are marking Dan Scorer’s decade in charge with a testimonial.

Scorer will manage a team made up largely of former Ton players in a match against the current squad.

It takes place at Homelands tonight (7.45pm) and entry is free.

Ton old boys set to return include prolific striker Gary Lockyer and former captain Gary Clarke.

Quite how the game will go is anyone’s guess.

On one hand, some of the returning players haven’t played much football lately.

On the other, Ton’s class of 2024 have just returned from their end-of-the-season do in Tenerife.

“It’s quite overwhelming the fact that everyone I asked has been able to come back,” said Scorer, who had just turned 23 when he took the manager’s job in 2014.

“We had to find a date when everyone was available but to have them all together with the current squad will make for a really special occasion.”

Scorer was initially offered the reserve team manager’s job at Kennington.

The offer was upgraded a week later and Ton haven’t looked back.

They’ve won three promotions in that time, going from the Kent County League Division 1 to the Southern Counties East Premier Division.

“I’d just had my third ACL injury in as many years and Kennington reached out, being a local boy and playing for the juniors,” said Scorer.

“It was a really exciting project. I always saw myself going into management but maybe not so young.

“I had every opportunity to get back playing but with so many injury setbacks, it led me into coaching and management a lot earlier.

“Of the squad I inherited, maybe three or four stayed.

“The rest decided to move on so it was a complete rebuild, which only excited me even more.

“I felt like it was something I could get my teeth into and make my own.

“I was very