Mervyn Bell is a football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 manager

Coach (sport)

In sports, a coach is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportspeople.-Staff:...

. He was manager of Dundela

Dundela F.C.

Dundela F.C. is an intermediate, Northern Irish football team from Belfast. It currently plays in IFA Championship 2, and plays its home matches at Wilgar Park, nicknamed "the Hen Run". The club's colours are green and white. The home kit has green shirts, white shorts and green or white socks,...

 since 1973, although his links with the club go back to 1966, when he first joined Dundela as a player. In 1973 he became player-manager of Dundela, taking over the managerial reins from Sammy Wilson

Sammy Wilson

Samuel Wilson is a politician from Northern Ireland who is a Member of Parliament and a Member of the Legislative Assembly for East Antrim. He served as Lord Mayor of Belfast in 1986 – 1987; and again from June 2000 to June 2001. He was the first person from the Democratic Unionist Party ...

. Mervyn finally 'hung his boots up' in 1980, to concentrate solely on the role of team manager at the club. He was succeeded as manager of Dundela by Mark Snodden in 2006.