YORK City chairman Matt Uggla has explained the reasoning behind his failed takeover of Yeovil Town last season, and believes he has learned from his mistakes.

Uggla became the majority shareholder of York last week alongside his mother Julie-Anne, with the pair acquiring Glen Henderson’s shares after their failed takeover of Vanarama National League South side Yeovil earlier this year.

The new City chairman has gone into detail on where it went wrong at the Glovers, and how he has learnt from his mistakes to not repeat them at York.

“Mikey [Morton, first team manager], David [Stockdale, head of recruitment] and I have all said that we have a plan in place that we all believe in and you just have to block out the outside noise because it’s a lesson I definitely learned from Yeovil times." Uggla explained.

“There’s a lot of people that will definitely get under your skin and try to make you bite, and I was naïve in those situations before.

“Whereas now you have to block it out and if you believe in what you’re doing and the vision, then down the line you will be vindicated.

“I think we’ve learnt lessons, it’s harsh to say we destabilised the club. We went in there and they had zero money, were close to administration and they couldn’t have signed a single player if we didn’t go in there.

“Without getting into it too much, there is someone down there who started performing badly and looked for a scapegoat, and it was easy to blame the one change that had happened.

“There’s people that sometimes will hold their hands up and say I made a mistake, and I hold my hands up and say I made a mistake, but there are people who I’m talking about that would never hold their hands up.

“They know the truth, they know what happened, but I’m comfortable with it and he’s comfortable with it.

“It put a fire in our belly, you hear people telling stories about what was going on. They don’t know, they weren’t in the room and as a football fan I understand it.

“But if you’re not in that room hearing those conversations, I don’t think you’re in a place to comment on it in a way that certain people have commented on it.

“I’ve heard people comment saying this that or another, but they don’t know what happened in these conversations. For us it’s frustrating to see all this stuff going on when that’s not what happened, it’s crazy that we are getting scapegoated here, so let’s go show them what we can do here and the proof is in the pudding."

Uggla also admitted to holding his hands and admitting he was wrong at times whilst attempting to takeover at Yeovil, and wants to keep his connection with the York fanbase as strong as possible.

“I hold my hands up and there are definitely moments that were wrong and shouldn’t have been done and were naïve, but I do think there is a place for social media as interacting with fans is crucial.

“We’re all on that journey together in getting to that place, I don’t think there should be a huge barrier between the ownership of the club and the fanbase, thy are the most important people at the club.

"You’re not going to alienate yourself from them, but trying to block out that negative noise of people trying to bite and get under your skin, they will say all sorts of horrible things and when you’re not used to it, it can drive you to react and bite and that’s when you get in trouble.

“It’s a lesson learnt, all the time negative things are coming out but they’re just not true and it’s not what happened. I’ll keep my mouth shut, block out the noise and let’s make York extremely successful.

“There’s a time and place for it. I definitely learned that the hard way, again I hold my hands up, lesson learnt.

“We went into that situation very naïve and not knowing a lot about the world of football, but now having had six months of that experience and making a lot of mistakes for sure.

“I’m not perfect, I make mistakes and everyone’s human and makes mistakes. I certainly will interact with fans as I like doing that and I want to be part of the journey with them, but there’s a time and place.”