Exeter City dismiss Cornforth
Exeter City have sacked their manager John Cornforth following Saturday's 1-0 home defeat to York City.
The 34-year-old Cornforth took charge of City last term after Noel Blake was dismissed folowing a poor start. Now the former Sunderland and Swansea midfielder has been dismissed following a run of results that has seen the Devon club slip to 21st in the Third Division and record only three wins.
Eamonn Dolan, the Devon club's club's director of youth football, has put in temporary charge of first-team affairs but the executive vice chairman Mike Lewis confirmed: "We will not be appointing from within again. When we bring the new man in, we want new ideas.
"We have got to have someone with fresh ideas and new concepts. It's a shame to see John go but that's football, I'm afraid. John did a great job for this club last season, but this season things have not gone his way."
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