Most recently, Mike Kelly worked as assistant to Roy Hodgson at Liverpool in the Barclays Premier League.

Kelly, a former goalkeeper with Wimbledon, QPR and Birmingham City, has extensive coaching experience in the game, having also worked with the England national team between 1984 and 1990; and again alongside Hodgson, he helped guide Switzerland to the 1994 World Cup.

He managed Plymouth in the 77/78 season.