Cox departs Hill

Burgess Hill Town have just announced the departure of manager Dean Cox.

The club have just released a short statement:

'Burgess Hill Town FC can this afternoon confirm that Manager Dean Cox has left his role as first team manager.

Chairman Vince Alfieri said “I’ve loved every minute working with Dean and am really sorry to see him go. I wish him nothing but success for the future”.

The Club would like to thank Dean for all his efforts since joining the Club in the summer and we wish him well for the future.'

Hill are in twelfth place in Pitching In Isthmian South East, having drawn half of their matches so far.

Cox was appointed manager at Leylands Park in April, leaving a similar role at Lancing to take on the challenge.

He joined the Lancers in December last year, and succeeded in steering them to safety and a best ever thirteenth place in Pitching In Isthmian South East. Prior to his time at Culver Road, he spent the 21-22 season helping Worthing to a Pitching In Isthmian Premier title triumph, making twenty nine appearances as the Mackerel Men, managed by his former Brighton and Hove Albion team mate Adam Hinshelwood, triumphed by ten points and scored one hundred goals.

He spent the previous few years elsewhere in Sussex, turning out for Eastbourne Borough in the National League South. He moved to the Sports from Crawley Town, but was better known for his time with Leyton Orient- more nearly three hundred appearances- and at Brighton and Hove Albion, where he played almost two hundred times.

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