Cox in charge

Lancing have announced the appointment of Dean Cox as their new manager, replacing Dale Hurley and Alex Walsh, who departed for Haywards Heath Town earlier this week.

Dean spent last 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.

Dean has 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.

Dean will be assisted by another former Mackerel Man, Will Hendon.

Whether the two will be pulling on their boots again remains to be seen, but their first game in charge should be against Ashford United tomorrow- Lancing appears to be snow-free so the match is apparently not in doubt.

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