Eddie Lever

{{short description|English football manager}}

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Eddie Lever was the manager of the English football club Portsmouth F.C. from 1952 to 1958.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eH-5BAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Eddie+Lever%22+portsmouth&pg=PT36 | isbn=978-1-909143-29-6 | title=The Portsmouth Quiz Book: 250 Questions on the History and Players | date=12 July 2012 | publisher=Andrews UK Limited }} Lever took over at Pompey in 1952 after championship-winning manager Bob Jackson joined Hull City. He is credited with discovering a 16-year-old Jimmy Dickinson in the early 1940s.