THAME United boss Andy Sinnott has been named Ryman first division manager of the month for September.

THAME United boss Andy Sinnott has been named Ryman first division manager of the month for September.

Sinnott, who shares the managerial duties with joint boss Alan Thorne, took the prize after a super September in which Thame completed seven wins on the bounce.

Thorne and Sinnott have now won the award five times in two seasons.

Sinnott said: 'It's nice to be recognised but the prizes that really matter are those given out in May. I want to be at the Ryman dinner then getting the manager of the year award and the championship trophy.'

But while Sinnott takes the accolades he points out it is a team effort.

He said: 'Management is easy when you're playing as well as we are. The players have performed really well and we must not forget the part that our coach Peter Lamont has played.'

United are second in the table, with a game in hand on leaders Boreham Wood. They have scored 28 goals and conceded eight in their rise up the table. Thame's reserves are top of the Suburban League and the youths lead the Allied Counties League.

United are unusual in having joint managers and the league does not recognise their set-up when it hands out awards.

Sinnott said: 'They never say Andy Sinnott and Alan Thorne, it's always just one of us even though we do the job together.

'I suppose it's unusual. A lot of joint managements don't work but it does at Thame. We complement each other, we're different characters but great friends.'

The double-act are hoping to steer United to win number eight tomorrow when struggling Uxbridge visit Windmill Road.

United will be hoping to do to them what they did to third-placed Worthing last week when they came from a goal behind after 60 seconds to win 3-1 with Justin Lee, Mark West and Chris Fontaine scoring against a team reduced to ten after 34 minutes.

Thame's success is mirrored on a new club website set up by 13-year-old Laurence Dyer of Park Street, Thame.

His site, called www.thameunitedfc.co.uk, features fixtures, results, reports, player profiles and information regarding the first team, reserve, youth and social teams as well. There are also links to other non-league sites and league tables.

Dyer is a pupil at Lord Williams' School. He passed a City & Guild qualification in Pascal Programming at the age of nine and won a website design competition sponsored by SoundByte in Thame last year.