Dearden back with Stags
28 Dec 2006 - 12:16:21
Billy Dearden has been appointed as the new manager of Mansfield Town, returning for his second spell in charge at Field Mill.
Dearden was previously boss of the Stags from the summer of 1999 until January 2002, when he left to take charge at Notts County.
After agreeing his return, Dearden told the club's official website: "I will take charge until the end of the season and we will see what happens and take it from there.
"We are currently in the bottom five, so the immediate job is to get the team into the top half of the table.
"Talks were long and hard as they always are, but we have arrived at a conclusion we are happy with."
Dearden succeeds Peter Shirtliff, who was shown the door after the 2-1 defeat at Barnet shortly before Christmas.