SCOTT Lindsey believes switching Swindon Town for Crawley Town “has proven to be the best decision [he] ever made” days before his old and current side meet in League Two.

The former Swindon boss will bring his new team to the County Ground on Monday (12:30pm kick-off) for a game that will have no serious implications in terms of promotion or relegation after Lindsey helped keep the Red Devils in the division with a game to spare.

Meanwhile, Swindon’s hopes of a play-off campaign have long been over despite the club being firmly in the promotion race when the now-51-year-old left the County Ground in early January.

Asked about his debut season as a head coach in professional football by Head of Sport Sussex reporter, Mark Dunford, Lindsey said: “I think you can look at it and say I have had a pretty reasonable first managerial season.

“It’s been quite successful in many ways. I was in the play-offs all the time I was with Swindon and then made the change to Crawley.

“A lot of eyebrows were raised and a lot of people in the game and outside of the game were like: “why’s he done that?”

“But I have done it for the reasons I thought were best for me, and it has proven to be the best decision I have ever made.”

Lindsey – who celebrated his 51st birthday on Thursday – was not widely welcomed when he was appointed at Swindon last summer and struggled to form a significant connection with Robins fans during his time there.

The ex-Swindon boss believes, in hindsight, he was always likely to struggle with other ‘big’ names like Ryan Mason, Chris Hughton, and Michael Carrick tipped to take over prior to his announcement.

Lindsey said: “I was the assistant manager the year before and I probably wasn’t the name they wanted.

“They probably wanted Alex Ferguson or someone like that, which I am not, and they found me a boring appointment.

“What I will say is, I had the best start after 15 games than any other manager had had in 16 seasons.

“I was in the play-offs all season, I had a young squad, nothing like the squad the season before, and we played some decent football.

“But for whatever reason, they just didn’t see me as an attractive appointment, I suppose.”

But ahead of Monday’s meeting, Lindsey insists there will be no extra motivation to do well from his point of view.

He said: “It’s all about us, it just happens to be Swindon, it could have been against anyone and we would still go out and put in a professional performance and do well for our fans and for ourselves.

“I won’t be getting wrapped up in anything other than being professional for us.”