He did a superb job at Everton Football Club in the mid 80's. To win what they did, and probably would have won the European Cup in 85-86 were it not for Heysel, was an amazing feat. Despite having two big centre forwards, Sharp and Gray, they played a stylish brand of football, from back to front. He reinvigorated a previously thought shot Peter Reid, and managed to involve a Liverpool reject in Kevin Sheedy to great effect. With little imp Adrian Heath buzzing behind the two big guys, they were a massive handful for any defence.
At the back you had the captain, the pacey but under rated centre half Kevin Ratcliffe, and Derek Mountfield, who also managed a significant amount of goals from the set piece. These were flanked by Gary Stevens and madman Pat Van den Hauwe and supported by one of the best keepers I've seen in Neville Southall.
After he left Everton to Colin Harvey, neither party were quite the same again. Harvey did manage to win the league in 86-87 but their style changed somewhat and weren't playing the attractive football Howard Kendall had them playing.
I also vaguely remember him as an industrious midfielder with Birmingham City. RIP.