Saturday, 2 June 2018

Paul Tisdale leaves Exeter City after 12 years in charge

• Tisdale departs after 4,358 days in charge at Devon club
• Morecambe’s Jim Bentley becomes longest-serving manager

Paul Tisdale has relinquished his status as the longest-serving manager in the country, leaving Exeter City after almost 12 years in the job. The 45-year-old was upset by the Supporters Trust – that run the club – serving notice on his two-year rolling contract in November 2016 and rejected a new contract at Exeter.

His contract did not formally expire until October but Tisdale had made it clear following Monday’s defeat by Coventry City at Wembley – a second successive loss in the League Two play-off final – that he wished to clarify his future. In his post-match press conference on Monday, Tisdale said: “The whole situation of me being served my notice 18 months ago, the whole situation has been rather surreal and how it happened.”

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from Football | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2LdGcoY

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