Ben Davies talks Sven-Goran Eriksson and Sol Campbell at Notts County

Grimsby Town defender Ben Davies has talked about his time at Notts County under the Munto regime as the Mariners travel to Meadow Lane for a League Two meeting.

The midfielder-turned-defender spent a year-and-a-half at NG2, during which he helped the Magpies to the fourth-tier title as a culmination of a rollercoaster period under the "ownership" of the shady entity.

“I’ve got nothing but happy memories there,” Davies told the Grimsby Telegraph.

“Obviously going there with Sven and all the hype that was around the place, the 18 months I spent there was just a constant high really.

“There was a lot of money pumped into the club at that time, and we had the likes of Kasper (Schmeichel), Lee Hughes and Sol Campbell – the team was too good for the league really, and we won a lot of games 3, 4 or 5-0.

“It was nice to get the promotion, and be playing with some of the best players I’ve played with over my career.

“Sven was absolutely brilliant. He was at training every day, he was at every game, and he was really hands-on with it all.

“He made it a really relaxed atmosphere, and obviously winning most weeks brings that as well.

On Campbell’s time at Meadow Lane, Davies added: “He came and he was there for about eight weeks trying to get fit.

“He got fit, and then he trained for about three weeks with us, and you could just tell how good he was then.

“He played a couple of games and then got injured again. I think he was getting frustrated at that time, and we were winning games.

“But even with him being there for just three or four months, you learned so much off him with his professionalism and the way he went about things, and obviously with Kasper as well the professionalism was taken to a new level.

“The way things were done, it was like a Premier League club - it was just unfortunate really that they couldn’t carry it on.

“Obviously it will be nice to go back there and see everyone, but we’ll be desperate to get the win.”

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