SWINDON Town have today appointed Steve Anderson as their new general manager.

Anderson had been acting as the club's head of finance but will now replace former GM Steve Murrall who left at the end of November.

A Town statement, released this morning, read: "The Board of Swindon Town Football Club are delighted to announce that Mr Steve Anderson, currently Head of Finance for STFC, has been appointed as General Manager of the Club with immediate effect.

"Steve brings a wealth of solid accounting with him to the Club and is solidly-equipped to manage the Club having worked with the Chairman, Lee Power in the past.

"More specifically, Steve spent 12 years working in practice at a number of Accountancy firms both here in Wiltshire and in Leeds, Yorkshire before moving into industry and taking up various Head of Finance roles whilst also consulting for a number of private clients."