The 29-year-old left-back, who can also operate as a central midfielder, had signed for Alty, initially on a month's loan, from Stockport County in November 2017.

He had been at Edgeley Park since February 2017, when he had joined from Curzon Ashton, but injury sidelined him before the end of the 2016/17 season at County.

He had previously been at the Tameside Stadium since 2011.

His impressive performances for Alty prompted an extension of his loan period into 2018.

He missed several games in the Spring of 2018 through injury before returning for the run-in where he played well at centre-back.

A broken hand kept him out of the side during August and September 2018 before he returned to be a regular starter at left-back.

At the start of 2019/20 he acted as captain but after starting the first 11 league games, a foot injury cost him his place. However, he reclaimed his place for the final 11 league matches and played an important role in the trio of play-off games which secured promotion and went on to make 135 appearances for the Robins.

Outside football, he teaches in a primary school.