SHAUN REID wants the Chester manager’s job after the sacking of Steve Burr.

The former Blues midfielder left the Warrington Town hot-seat two months ago after leading them to the top of the Northern Premier League Division One table.

“I need a new challenge and yes, I would love to manage Chester,” said Reid, who made 62 appearances for The Blues in Kevin Ratcliffe’s play-off chasing side from the late Nineties.

“I played for the club and the fans will know that I’ll always give 110 per cent.

“I feel I’ve cut my teeth in management with Prescot Cables and Warrington.

“I’ve scouted and coached at Swindon and Plymouth and my contacts are massive in the game.”

The Blues sacked boss Burr last Thursday and the board can expect a glut of applicants for the post, following their 2-1 defeat at Lincoln City on Saturday.

Meanwhile, Chester chairman Steve Olorenshaw explained the reasons for dismissing Burr.

“I think it's been a combination of things and certainly wasn't a knee-jerk reaction,” he said. “If you look at the last five months we've had four wins in that period of time and I think as a board we all thought with the fixtures we had coming up over the Easter period that we could get through and we'd have the points that would secure us so there wouldn't be this sort of issue. 

“But we've been talking to Steve now over a couple of months, we've had him in on the board and I've been having a few conversations with him on the phone and I think we'd just come to the point where we felt he'd taken the club as far as he could this season and it just wasn't working and we weren't getting the turnaround. 

“We felt we had to do something to give that bit of a boost and I think we've got four games now and hopefully with bringing Macca and Ian in it'll just give them enough of a boost to get the three or four points we need to keep us up.

“We were playing all of the teams that were around us and down below us so we didn't want to knee-jerk and react too quickly because we thought we were going to get through it but I think we've got to the point now where that's not going to happen and we've got to inject that little bit of a boost.” 

For more on the latest at Chester FC and who could be in the frame, see today's edition of the Leader.