Yeovil confirm Chesterfield coach Webb as manager

Danny Webb had a brief spell as a player at Yeovil during 2006-07

Yeovil Town have confirmed Chesterfield assistant manager Danny Webb as their new manager on a deal until summer 2027.

Webb comes in 17 days after Mark Cooper was sacked from the role after a winless start to the season.

The Glovers are 18th in the National League with two wins out of their eight matches so far this campaign.

Assistant coach Richard Dryden, who has been in interim charge, is to remain in the dugout for Saturday's match at home to Woking before Webb takes charge before their trip to Tamworth on 20 September.

"It seems at Yeovil they've got used to be really really up there or really down, so we have to find a plateau, we have to find a middle ground," Webb told BBC Radio Somerset.

"Where there's progress, there's enjoyment, there's excitement, there's opinions but ultimately it's a team that's in the right hands, a club that's in the right hands and you can gradually get this really great support base back as one with the team."

Webb made seven appearances for Yeovil during his playing career across lower-league football in 2006-07 before retiring in 2014.

He began working in coaching at Leyton Orient with their youth sides before moving into the first-team staff.

The 42-year-old went on to manage the O's for 12 games during 2017, winning two of them, before returning to the backroom staff as they won promotion back to the football league in 2019.

He joined the Spireites in 2021 and helped them win promotion to League Two in 2024.

Webb is the son of former Chelsea and Brentford manager David Webb who also managed Yeovil in 2000 and then became the club owner and executive chairman in 2005.

He recalled first coming to the club when his dad was in the dugout, before returning years later as a player under Russell Slade in a season when the club reached the League One play-offs, beating Nottingham Forest for a spot in the Wembley final.

"Playing Nottingham Forest here [at Huish Park] in front of 8,000, going away and beating them at Forest, those are the sorts of memories I'm sure supporters want to get back," he added.

"As an ownership and a management that will take time but we want to get there eventually."

'I like to get people off their seats'

Webb said his biggest influences on and off the pitch were his father, Justin Edinburgh who he worked with at Leyton Orient and who passed away in 2019, and current Chesterfield manager Paul Cook.

He said his philosophy for the team will be a mix of all three plus his own style.

"All three men are very different personalities, very different philosophies, but all good people. People I've learnt a lot off," he said.

"I like to get people off their seats, I like to be defensively sound at the same time, I like goals, I like balls in the box, I like flair players. I like to see things as a supporter that I would pay and watch.

"That isn't a boring style of football, that's excitement but also a level of pragmatism that makes you win football games."