John Deacey leaves Scarborough Athletic by mutual consent

Boro have gone on a poor run of six defeats on the spin, culminating in a 3-1 defeat at Witton Albion on Saturday.

A club statement on Sunday evening said: "We would like to inform our supporters that our manager John Deacey has today left the club by mutual consent.

"We appointed John based on his excellent track record of getting teams promoted from our current league and the league above. Sadly both for John and ourselves we are not seeing the progress we had anticipated.

"We would like to put on record that John has worked extremely hard during his time with us and we thank him for that and wish him well for the future.

"We will be making an announcement as soon as we can regarding our plans to appoint a new manager."