Stirling Albion have placed manager Alan Maybury on gardening leave having decided not to extend the former Republic of Ireland full-back’s contract beyond the end of the season.<\/p>\n
The Binos sit eighth – third bottom – in Scottish League 2 and are all but safe from relegation, being 14 points clear of Edinburgh City at the foot of the table after beating the capital side 1-0 on Saturday to end a five-game run without a win.<\/p>\n
But Stirling would be bottom if City and Dumbarton had not suffered points deductions from the Scottish Professional Football League.<\/p>\n
Stirling chairman Fraser McIntyre told his club website: “Alan joined us in a difficult period following our relegation from League 1. <\/p>\n
“Whilst these decisions are never easy, we believe this is the right step for the club at this time.”<\/p>\n
Tony McMinn, who has been 47-year-old Maybury’s assistant since he took charge in summer 2024, has been asked to form an interim management team until the end of the season.<\/p>\n
Former Leeds United, Heart of Midlothian, Leicester City, St Johnstone, Hibernian and Falkirk full-back Maybury had previously been Edinburgh manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stirling Albion have placed manager Alan Maybury on gardening leave having decided not to extend the former Republic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-510228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}