Geoffrey Richmond today prepared for his next football crusade, insisting: I'm still proud of what I achieved with Bradford City.

Richmond has been appointed chief executive at Notts County and will take up his new job as soon as the Second Division club come out of administration.

It is ten months on since he quit City after eight-and-a-half years at the Valley Parade helm. And the financial turmoil of the final months has not distorted his memories of that time.

Richmond said: "I walked away from Bradford with my head held high and very proud of what I achieved.

"I remember when I took over in 1994 and what I left in 2002, it was a completely different club. My one regret is that having survived in the Premier League, things went wrong after that and mistakes were made.

"We over-spent in relation to the purchase of players at that time. But I still maintained that it was case of being damned if you do or damned if you don't.

"I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if I hadn't given everything I could to establish Bradford in the Premier League. There was an opportunity then but we bought badly.

"But look at the stadium I left, the increase in support and remember those memories of days that supporters will take with them until their dying day."

Richmond has been recruited by Nottingham businessmen Raj Bhatia and Frank Strang whose £3million bid for the oldest club in the Football League has been accepted by the administrators.

He said: "The agenda at Notts County is very different to when I came to Bradford. The new owners aren't going to be throwing millions of pounds at getting the club into Division One and the Premiership.

"It's more about consolidation, being sensible and minimising expenditure while still going forward. But the stadium here is effectively a new one, the hospitality facilities are absolutely excellent and Notts County have an extremely loyal support base.

"There's no doubt that the potential could be here although you can say that about any football club."