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RICHARD BRADY'S spell as Leatherhead manager ended in defeat on Saturday as the Tanners went down 2-1 at home to Harrow Borough.
The Ryman Premier club, 18th in the league, announced before the game that it would be Brady's last in charge with the boss becoming ‘head of football development'.
His former number two Mike Sandmann has been promoted to manager to replace Brady, who was in charge for five years and led the club to promotion to Step 3 two seasons ago.
Tanners chairman Peter Ashdown said: “Richard has expressed a wish to stand down as manager. He has recently found the expanded role he has performed at the club too time consuming to enable him to enjoy family life with a young child and feels he has perhaps taken the team as far as he can, within the budget constraints imposed by the club.
“The board have been keen to keep Richard involved, and agreed a restructuring of the football management at the club, that continues to utilise Richard's strengths and skills to the benefit of the club. He will move to the newly-created position of ‘head of football development', with closer links to the U21s as well as continuing to expand the academy.
“Richard will continue to play an active part in first-team player recruitment, in liaison with the new manager, using his established excellent contacts at a large network of clubs.”
