BetVictor Northern Premier League Scarborough Athletic have parted company with manager John Deacey.
Deacey left the Flamingo Land Stadium by mutual consent on Sunday night after his side’s eleventh defeat of the season, Saturday’s 3-1 reverse at Witton Albion.
Pictured following his appointment in April as the successor to Steve Kittrick, the former Bradford Park Avenue and Farsley Celtic boss and the Seadogs went their separate ways after a sixth defeat on the spin left the club languishing in the wrong half of the NPL’s Premier Division table.
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— Scarborough Athletic (@safc) November 24, 2019
A club statement read: “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.”
An advocate of entertaining football, as joint manager of Farsley alongside Lee Sinnott, Deacey earned two successive promotions from the NPL to the National League.
In between two spells at Throstle Nest, Deacey spent six years at Bradford Park Avenue winning two promotions in three seasons and reaching the FA Cup first round proper twice.
The newly managerless Seadogs host Staithes Athletic in the first round of the North Riding Senior Cup on Tuesday night before Whitby Town arrive on Saturday in the NPL’s top flight.
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