DOVER Athletic chairman Mick Kemp has denied claims that manager Clive Walker offered to resign in the wake of last week’s defeat at Cambridge.

Walker asked to see Kemp and his fellow directors straight after the 2-1 defeat at the City Ground and, according to reports on Radio Kent, offered to stand down.

But, as Whites prepare for Sunday’s FA Cup second qualifying round tie with Maidenhead at the Hoverspeed Stadium (3pm), Kemp was keen to put the record straight.

He said: “Clive did not offer his resignation at the meeting but he said he was looking at achieving a certain improvement in the performances, and that he had given himself a period of time in which he wanted to see that improvement take place.

“The timespan involved is between the manager and the board, but we are monitoring the situation and trying to help Clive as much as we can.

"I think Clive’s request for that meeting was brought about by sheer frustration, and he just wanted to talk to somebody. He was honest, and he said that Dover cannot afford to be in the bottom four.”

Discontent has been growing among Whites’ fans over the club’s poor start to the season, but Kemp insisted that the board would not be pushed into panic measures.