South Leeds FC have made a double move this week bringing in Craig Ogilvie as their first team manager and bringing fanatical Leeds United supporter Gareth Senior as the club’s first ever club president.
Ogilvie is a well respected manager in non league football having managed the likes of Yorkshire Amateur, Albion Sports and Tadcaster Albion alongside current Albion Sports manager Neil Sibson who enjoyed a promotion to step 4 together with Yorkshire Amateur.
Gareth Senior also has the experience of running a non league club as he was the chairman of Yorkshire Amateur in their successful period while in step 4 and 5, so Ogilvie and Senior have already worked together. Gareth is a huge Leeds United supporter who follows them home and away but is also incredibly passionate about football in the city at grassroots level.
Ogilvie will be only South Leeds second ever manager taking the reigns from current chairman Reece Mudd who stepped down in January due to work and family commitments. At only 29 years old Mudd has had a incredible run since 2017 with 6 promotions during that time and 11 trophies.
South Leeds are enjoying their first season as a semi professional side sitting in 9th position under interim manager Danny Chadwick and his assistant Liam Mudd.
Liam Mudd had this to say about the new arrivals:
“To bring in such a high profile manager like Ogi at such an early stage of the club’s journey to me is a real statement of intent in where we want this club to go and also to get someone like Gareth on board is absolutely massive. I spoke to Gareth over a couple of months to bring him to the club to make sure it was right for himself and he loves what we are doing and what we want to do. With his expertise in business and running a club at a high level it was a no brainer for us.
“The first season we’ve had a few teething issues that we have had to get over as it is all new to us. Myself, Reece, Callum Macdonald have worked frantically over the last few months to make sure we are in a better position next year. So I think you’ll see the club a totally different animal next season from the first team down the club’s new third team, I would also like to thank Ogi and Gareth for believing in us and jumping onboard!”
This post was written by Jimmy Crawshaw
Photo: Gareth Senior
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