Glover Leaves Poppies

Manager Lee Glover has left Pitching In Southern League Premier Division Central newcomers Kettering Town by mutual consent.

Glover, who was appointed in May 2022, felt that a reduced playing budget, coupled with various difficulties remaining from last season, mean it is now better for the club to find a manager more suited to the Southern League.

Glover has agreed to assist the new manager and give a full handover of players, scouted player reports and help with loan signings, for next season.

Glover finished the 2021/22 season as assistant-manager at AFC Rushden & Diamonds having come into Hayden Road along with Andy Burgess.

The 53-year-old, who played in the 1991 FA Cup Final for Nottingham Forest and also featured for the likes of Port Vale, Rotherham United and Macclesfield Town during his playing career, has held assistant-manager roles at Stags and Peterborough United in the past.

Glover worked at Mansfield Town under manager John Dempster, joining in May 2019, but gone by January 2020 soon after Dempster’s sacking.

He also had a stint as manager at Corby Town in the early 2000s before going on to manage at Grantham Town.