Ex-Rotherham United boss Steve Evans takes over at Stags

He has signed a two-and-a-half year deal with the Stags and is joined by long-serving assistant manager Paul Raynor.

Evans left the Millers in September of last year after leading the club to back-to-back promotions from League Two to the Championship during a three-and-a-half year spell in charge.

The former Boston and Crawley manager went on to manage Yorkshire rivals Leeds United but failed to secure a new contract with the Championship club at the end of last season.

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During his unveiling, 54-year-old Evans said: "The fans will get everything. They’ll get Steve Evans' life and if you go and ask Massimo Cellino, the owner of Leeds United, if you go and ask Tony Stewart, the owner of Rotherham, you can’t ask Bruce Winfield who is sadly no longer with us, the guy who led the revolution down at Crawley Town along with the Carter family, then they would say you get my life.

“I literally live and breathe it, so that’s what they get plus a wealth of experience now across the years and someone who’s very focussed.

“When I went from Crawley when I went from virtually out of League One to League Two to join Rotherham United, I met a man called Tony Stewart, the chairman, and he sold a vision, he sold a plan and said certain things that he was going to do and he did every one of those - I met a man in the last 48 hours in John Radford who reminded me so much of that previous conversation.

“I didn’t want to go in somewhere that was fire-fighting in the leagues above and fighting against supporters and trusts and different people – I wanted to join a football club like I joined previously where everyone was pulling together and it’s fair to say that the chairman sold himself and the football club in a very admirable fashion and it didn’t take me long to want to be here.”