Background
Dodd was born in Bath, Somerset and attended the Beechen Cliff School.
Dodd was born in Bath, Somerset and attended the Beechen Cliff School.
He left the position as Caretaker Manager of Football League Two side Aldershot Town on 4 November 2009 to return to former club as director of the youth academy. He joined from Bath City in 1989 for a fee of £15,000. In December 2003, Dodd was initially credited with scoring a goal directly from a corner against Saints" rivals Portsmouth, but this was subsequently listed as an own goal by defender Sebastien Schemmel.
He was due to retire at the end of the 2004-2005 season, during which he spent time on loan at Plymouth Argyle.
However, after his contract expired with he left to join Brighton & Hove Albion. He made only seven appearances for Brighton during his year at the club due to injury.
A recurrence of his ankle injury prevented him playing after the first three games of the 2006-2007 season, and he retired from playing in November 2006 and was appointed head coach of Eastleigh. The following month he replaced Paul Doswell, who had become director of football, as Eastleigh"s manager, but resigned in July 2007 to be replaced by David Hughes.
Dodd returned to as first team coach under manager George Burley in the summer of 2007, replacing Glynn Snodin.
When Burley left in January 2008, Dodd became joint caretaker manager of, alongside John Gorman. However, on 23 June, Dodd was released by the club On 14 October 2009 he became the caretaker manager of Aldershot Town along with his former teammate Paul Williams after the previous manager, Gary Waddock, moved to Wycombe Wanderers.
On 4 November 2009, Dodd rejoined as director/chief coach of the club"s youth academy to oversee the development of the next generation to come through Street Mary"son, but was dismissed from the role on 20 May 2014, along with his assistant Paul Williams.