JEFF STELLING has quit as Hartlepool United president.

In the wake of Pool’s insipid 2-0 home defeat to Barnet, the Sky Sports presenter blasted manager Dave Jones as Pools slipped into the relegation zone.

And on Saturday night he informed club officials he is no longer willing to continue in his role. 

He fumed on Sky Sports Soccer Saturday: “I'm wearing my Hartlepool United tie today. We have lost at home, in the relegation places, and it’s not personal but for God’s sake for the good of the club go now. Walk now.

"It’s 13 points from 51, this is not your level of football. Pam Duxbury, the chairman Gary Coxall if he won’t walk then sack him. If it means me resigning as president then I do so happily – do it now, do it today.''

Stelling replaced Peter Mandleson in the role in 2016, but has now had enough with the club on the brink of relegation from the Football League for the first time. 

Jones, however, won't quit the club. 

He came in for abuse from the fans, and so too did chairman Gary Coxall.

The manager said: "We have to win at Cheltenham next week, we think about what we can do. We did things different this week, change the personnel a bit, we are stuck with what we have got.

“We try and change it, but it’s getting that bit of fight and scrap - keep hold of what you have got.

“I’ve fought all my life and I won’t stop, but I didn’t expect the players to stop too.’’