ANDY CAN MAKE POPPIES BLOOM

IT’S fair to say Andy Leese is something of a Step 3 expert, so Kettering Town look to have made a rather shrewd appointment this week.

- Hugo Varley

Leese has spent the last 13 seasons managing at the level, ever since guiding Chesham United to promotion way back in 2010.

After leaving the Generals seven years later, a spell with Enfield Town in the Isthmian Premier followed, before he sought pastures new this summer.

Despite reaching the playoffs on numerous occasions, a promotion has proved agonisingly elusive, but Leese feels the Poppies could offer the perfect base for a successful assault at last.

“It’s been a long time that I’ve been at this level in NonLeague and, I won’t lie, I’d absolutely love to be a Step 2 manager,” he told The NLP.

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“I thought my time with Enfield was successful. We punched above our weight and came close on a number of occasions but just couldn’t quite get over the line.