Mitchell rage: Sunday League clubs are run better than Lordswood - it's a shambles! - EXCLUSIVE

SHAWN MITCHELL has launched a scathing attack on Kent League club Lordswood, after resigning as their first-team manager, writes Stephen McCartney.

The Strood based ceiling fixer took over from Paul Piggott last May, but the former Wainscott Arrows and Snodland manager, who played for Chatham Town, Lordswood and Herne Bay earlier in his career, felt he could no longer carry on.

“Sunday League sides are run better,” he fumed, when speaking EXCLUSIVELY to www.kentishfootball.co.uk.

“We do everything to opening up the club, picking up the kit. I had to go out and buy new socks for the lads.

“After five months telling the committee, basically it’s a shambles up there and the players know that.

“I’m relieved to have got away from there. How Paul Piggott did three years, I’ll never know!

“It’s a struggle to attract players with no budget. It’s also too easy for players’ to pull out a day before a match.”

But Mitchell can have no complaints over his budget, as he knew what he was getting into, when taking the job last May.

Speaking to www.kentishfootball.co.uk back then, he said: “There’s no budget. I know what I was taking on when I applied for the job. I knew Lordswood haven’t got no money.”