{"id":149569,"date":"2025-09-17T10:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T10:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/149569\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T10:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T10:55:09","slug":"gary-johnson-cheltenham-director-of-football-resigns-from-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/149569\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Johnson: Cheltenham director of football resigns from club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 69-year-old returned to the club shortly after Cheltenham were relegated back to the fourth tier at the end of 2023-24 and following the departure of manager Darrell Clarke.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Johnson was then involved in the appointment of head coach Michael Flynn, who guided the Robins to a 15th-place finish last season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club signed 11 players this summer, including bringing defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cj0mm2ljn3lo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robbie Cundy<\/a> in and re-signing midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c20p0l4y41no\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Broom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yet Johnson has come in for criticism from fans in recent weeks as the team have struggled on the pitch, with a banner calling for him to leave at their most recent home game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cheltenham were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/clymmvjj263o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">taken over by Mike Garlick<\/a> last month, with the former Burnley chairman taking a &#8220;controlling interest&#8221; and joining the club&#8217;s board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 69-year-old returned to the club shortly after Cheltenham were relegated back to the fourth tier at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-149569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}