Tamworth
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Southport
Position | Manager |
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Previous Team | Rushden Town, Raunds Town, Northampton Spencer, Long Buckby, |
Date Signed | 15 Feb 2022 |
Andy joined Tamworth as first team manager on 15 February 2022 on an 18 month contract, with the task to ensure The Lambs survival in the Southern League Premier Division.
He turned his new clubs fortunes around with an unbeaten run of 14 games before the season ended he rebuilt his squad with the aim of a successful 2022-23 campaign.
And the winning mentality continued, resulting in a final day championship victory to take The Lambs back into the National League North after a 5 year hiatus.
Andy has a long footballing career both as a player and a manager starting his career at Northampton Town before going on to make over 200 appearances in 5 year at Nene Park with Rushden Town, who then became Rushden and Diamonds. He then featured for Raunds Town, Wealdstone and then enjoyed a five year spell at Stamford and after obtaining his coaching badges he joined Long Bucky and Daventry Town in assistant manager positions before taking the main role at Northampton Spencer.
Andy was coach at the Diamonds Academy until it’s closure in 2011 and then became assistant manager at AFC Rushden and Diamonds.
The first season brought promotion and he took on the role of leading the side to UCL promotion in 2015 and a further promotion to the Southern League Premier Central in the 2018-19 season. With continued and on-going season by season improvements he guided the Diamonds into a Southern League Premier Central playoff position just over half way into 2021-22 before his move to The Lamb.