Haywards Heath Town chairman reveals why he has stepped down

Cottingham revealed he would be stepping down at the same time news broke Lloyd Cotton had left his role as manager.

And the long-serving chairman said the club needed a change to push it forward.

He said: "I am stepping down as chairman from now. I am going to be vice-chairman. We have got a new chairman coming in who I think will push the club forward."

Cottingham announced that the new chairman would be Steve Isherwood, who runs the junior section at the club.

He said: "We thought he [Isherwood] has got a lot more experience. I have done five or six years and they have been the best years I have done. I have run out of ideas now to get the club moving any further. But I will still be connected with the club but as a vice-chairman and still help out.

"As far as I am concerned it needs someone new there to push the club forward. It is a big change but one for the best. I am doing it for the club, not for me. The club is more than me.

"This all depends on the committee agreeing to it all but I think everybody will go with this."