York City are veering out of control ...Middle East

LNER COMMUNITY STADIUM — York City’s season is 80 minutes old, they have not yet played a league match and most of their home stadium is mutinous. Some chant for the manager to be sacked; his tenure is only 80 minutes old too. Others simply lend their support to the bloke who was in charge the last time they were here.

It is a situation I have never experienced before. A fanbase was entirely overjoyed with their title-winning players and manager and all went off to bask in the summer glory. They have returned to a farce. York City broke records last season, but this is surely world-record pace for killing the mood?

Perhaps we should not be surprised. York City know chaos like few other football clubs in their new environment of the Football League. The last 10 years have brought a change of ownership, two different stadiums and 11 different managers, the longest-serving of whom only reached 91 matches in charge.

In that time, York suffered consecutive relegations to fall into the fifth tier. They finished second in two different divisions and then lost play-off matches without scoring against teams who finished below them. They took 204 points across consecutive seasons to reach the Football League. To repeat: it is never dull.

Stuart Maynard probably believed that he had risen above the noise. Appointed four matches into last season – York had only won one of them – he won 32 of 42 league games and lifted the National League title. Maynard’s team were sensational in every area: they scored 114 league goals and between November and February took 56 points from a possible 60.

All seemed well, unsurprisingly. Maynard oversaw a pre-season schedule that included eight new signings and culminated in a five-day tour of Spain and two matches against Saudi Pro League team Al-Ettifaq. Shortly after his return to England, Maynard learned that his contract had been terminated. A club statement detailed a “difference in visions”.

In his place, York appointed Scott Lindsey. Lindsey’s last job (and the job before that, with a spell at MK Dons sandwiched in between) was at Crawley Town, where he was sacked in March after winning 12 matches in a calendar year. On Monday evening in York, an EFL Cup preliminary round fixture: York vs Crawley. Lindsey vs his old club. Great fun.

The decisions at York City are predominantly made by chairman Matt Uggla following a takeover in 2023. Uggla made his money in property development and investment and has an… active role in club life through his social media accounts. After York got promoted last season, Uggla quote-tweeted a series of posts from supporters who expressed doubts about the decision to sack manager Adam Hinshelwood last August.

At the time of that sacking, Uggla went public with a personal attack on Hinshelwood, making wild allegations against him and saying he was generally “not a good man”.

In the aftermath of Maynard’s sacking, Uggla posted on Instagram in response to criticism from supporters: “All I ask is you keep this energy when we win it all.” All I know is that they will not be winning the EFL Cup after losing 2-0.

York City have ambitious owners. This summer, the Smits family – and the related private equity firm – bought 15 per cent of the club. They will likely have a top-seven wage budget in League Two and quite possibly a top-seven attendance too. You only have to see what Bromley did with less before them.

And if it doesn’t work out for Lindsey, and work out quickly, York’s owners have proven themselves perfectly willing to change until they find the right answer. After Hinshelwood and Maynard, the locals are learning not to get too attached to their managers.

So perhaps none of this matters? The generous take is that Uggla cares so much that his passion and emotion occasionally leads to oversharing on social media and causes snap decisions. Also: those decisions have worked. If the owner should probably have avoided crowing to the doubters in May, he was also proven right.

The less sympathetic would suggest that the main character energy of owners rarely ends well. York were not totally awful against Crawley. They missed two decent chances and hit the underside of the bar. Leaving the EFL Cup before it has begun may be no bad thing given it affords Lindsey some time on the training pitch. Expecting clever patterns of play after a few sessions is unrealistic.

But then that was the choice of the club, not the wish of the supporters. They believe that they had a good thing going. If Lindsey needs time and patience, they didn’t ask for him anyway. And where is that patience from the owner?

This was a very good team not so long ago. On Monday, York failed to score in a match for the first time since September 2025 and lost at home for the first time since October 2025. That’s the problem with sacking popular, successful managers: the standards are hard to match and the comparisons often unflattering.

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If you preach a mantra of short-termism then don’t be surprised when your public runs with it. By the end, the LNER was a messy maelstrom of Yorkshire bitterness, thousands of people quickly losing their minds before the kids have even settled properly into summer holidays.

One man screams for Lindsey to “f**k off” because he’s a yes man, to widespread cheers. And then, across two stands, the chant that soundtracked the magnificent promotion of the spring that now feels like somebody else’s experience: “Stuart Maynard’s barmy army”.

They want their Maynard back; they sang that too. Mutiny complete on the third day of August. And if the next few months don’t go as well as they have been promised, things could get Uggla.

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