Hillingdon Borough FC boss quits club

Hillingdon Borough Football Club manager Steve Ringrose has quit the club just six weeks before the start of the new season.

Ringrose, who over the last six years has steered the club to its most successful period since it reformed in 1990, cited a lack of harmony between its owner and directors as the reason for his shock exit.

His assistant Boysie Wise has also quit and Ringrose expects almost all the team to follow them out of the Middlesex Stadium.

In a club statement Ringrose said: " There is clearly a difference in direction at present between the club's owners and the directors which I believe is to the detriment of the football club.

" With the very tight financial limitations which we have previously worked under, these have now been even further compounded and I firmly believe that this in particular would make this job very difficult, if not impossible, to carry out this coming season."

Ringrose added: " I think there's a difference in opinion in what a football club is and the direction it should be going in.

" It certainly has resulted in a massive lack of harmony there and it's really forced the issue."