John Reames
{{Short description|English football manager and administrator}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name = John Reames
| image =
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| fullname = Keith John Reames
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1942|2|19|df=y}}
| birth_place = Lincoln, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|2008|5|6|1942|2|19|df=y}}
| death_place = Lincoln, England
| manageryears1 = 1998–2000
| managerclubs1 = Lincoln City
}}
Keith John Reames (19 February 1942 – 6 May 2008) was an English football manager and administrator who was chairman of Lincoln City from 1985 to 2000. He remains, to date, their longest-serving chairman; he also managed the club from 1998 to 2000.
Reames also held high positions within the Football Association (FA) and Football League during the 1990s (chairman of the FA Referees Committee and director of the Football League).{{cite web|url=http://www.redimps.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10440~1308058,00.html|title=John Reames|accessdate=2008-05-14|date=2008-05-08|publisher=Lincoln City F.C.}}
Lincoln City
=As chairman=
Reames was chairman of Lincoln City for 15 years, from 1985 to 2000, and remains to date their longest-serving chairman. After Lincoln City had sold their ground to the local council in 1982 for £225,000,{{cite book|author=Ian and Donald Nannestad|title=Lincoln City: The Official History|page=63|isbn=1-874427-47-X|publisher=Yore Publications}} Reames bought it back from the council in 2000, ensuring the existence and continuity of Lincoln City as a viable professional football club and business.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/football-league/lincoln-look-to-supporters-for-survival-624719.html|title=Lincoln look to supporters for survival|accessdate=2008-05-14|date=2000-11-30|author=David Conn|work=The Independent}}{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}{{cite web|url=http://archive.thisisyork.co.uk/2002/1/12/292120.html|title=The Reames example|accessdate=2008-05-14|date=2002-01-12|publisher=The York Press}}
Reames also oversaw the complete rebuilding of Sincil Bank, and guided Lincoln back to the Football League in 1988. He was also responsible for appointing the first full-time black professional manager in the Football League in Keith Alexander (1993).
Upon resigning as chairman of Lincoln City in November 2000, Reames left £400,000 in trust for the club's future.
=As manager=
Later career
After leaving Lincoln, Reames was also chairman of Gainsborough Trinity, and managing director of Wrexham.
Death
Reames died on 6 May 2008 from cancer. He left behind a wife Beth, sons Paul and Thomas, and daughters Kate, Sarah and Clare.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/lincoln_city/7389865.stm|title=Ex-Lincoln chairman Reames dies|accessdate=2008-05-08|date=2008-05-08|publisher=BBC}}
References
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Category:English football managers
Category:English football chairmen and investors
Category:Lincoln City F.C. managers
Category:Deaths from cancer in England
Category:20th-century English businesspeople
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