' Chris Hughton sacked '

ADAMS REPLACES HUGHTON AS BOSS

PUBLISHED
20:05 6th April 2014
Full Norwich City club statement.

NORWICH City can confirm Chris Hughton, Colin Calderwood and Paul Trollope have parted company with the Club with immediate effect - and former Canary winger and FA Youth Cup-winning coach Neil Adams has been appointed as First Team Manager.

The Norwich City Board has taken the decision to give the Club the maximum chance to secure the points required between now and the end of the season to ensure retention of our Barclays Premier League status.

Neil Adams, 48, steps up from his current role as our Under-18s Coach with a wealth of experience as a player, having won a league title with Everton in 1987 and made 206 appearances in all competitions as a stalwart wide player for Norwich City between 1993 and 1999.

He moved into the Club's youth coaching set-up and last year guided the young Canaries to their first FA Youth Cup triumph in 30 years, courtesy of a shock victory over Chelsea in the final, in which his side won both legs.

His long experience as a player, coach and as a media analyst for BBC local radio means Neil understands the Club and its fans extremely well and the Club is sure the Canary supporters will unite behind Neil and the team for the crucial games ahead.

Meanwhile the Club would like to place on record it's sincere thanks to Chris Hughton, Colin Calderwood and Paul Trollope for all of their hard work on behalf of the Club since they took over in June 2012.

Chris's achievement in guiding City to an 11th-place finish in the Premier League last season was an excellent one and he has represented the Club with dignity throughout his tenure.

However the recent run of four defeats in our last six Premier League games and six consecutive away league defeats, left the Club with no choice but to act, with five games still to play in the current campaign.

On the appointment of Neil Adams, David McNally said: "Neil is a progressive and successful coach who has served this Club as a player and a member of our coaching staff in exemplary fashion over two decades. With our fantastic fans getting behind Neil and the team in the games ahead we will greatly improve our chances of a successful end to the current campaign.

Neil Adams said: "To say that I am delighted to have been offered the opportunity of managing Norwich City Football Club would be a massive understatement.

"People know what this club means to me, and so it goes without saying that we will be doing everything possible to ensure that we maintain our top-flight status for next season.

"These final five games will be a huge test for us, and everyone must step up to the mark. But with the full backing of these magnificent Norwich supporters we will have every chance of achieving our objective."


Read more at http://www.canaries.co.uk/news/article/ ... 71649.aspx

Lump your money on Malky!

Strange time to sack a manager, and I can't see who they will bring in to get results in their last 5 games to keep them in the prem.

I hope Malky gets it, so Tan has to find another reason to renege on his promise of debt to equity..

Strange time to sack a manager, and I can't see who they will bring in to get results in their last 5 games to keep them in the prem.

I don't think they will need to win them as us or sunderland can't win our own games

Strange time to sack a manager, and I can't see who they will bring in to get results in their last 5 games to keep them in the prem.

I don't think they will need to win them as us or sunderland can't win our own games

Agree! Think they will stay up. Us, Fulham and Sunderland for the drop. Hope I am wrong!!!

It just shows how much uncertainty surrounds football , I thought he was doing ok at Norwich .

It's a cruel world. Ramsey scores against us, Ledley virtually sends us down then Malky comes in to seal our fate and keep Norwich above us!

I hope Malky gets it, so Tan has to find another reason to renege on his promise of debt to equity..

Norwich fans thing that C.H. type of play was boring god help them if they get M.M.

Sunday 06 April 2014
Norwich City replace manager Hughton with Adams -

http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/news ... adams.html?

Lump your money on Malky!

Cardiff please act quick. Get rid of Ole and snap up malky. Tan please settle things with Malky!

Sunday 06 April 2014
Norwich City replace manager Hughton with Adams -

http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/news ... adams.html?

Adams caretaker for now? good! let strike while the iron is hot. get malky back while norwich dither over adams

I hope Malky gets it, so Tan has to find another reason to renege on his promise of debt to equity..

THIS

It's a cruel world. Ramsey scores against us, Ledley virtually sends us down then Malky comes in to seal our fate and keep Norwich above us!

pleaseeeee nooooooooooo!

Strange time to sack a manager, and I can't see who they will bring in to get results in their last 5 games to keep them in the prem.

desperation

Very strange timing.

Agree completely Daft timing

should have stayed at birmingham.loved him at the blues.c.h would never have got the sack at brum.we aint got the dollar to sack anyone

Lump your money on Malky!

Would be a logical assumption, but then again THIS IS FOOTBALL! LOL

I would rather Hughton here than Ole to be honest.

I actually think Norwich played good football against us. It was unbelievable how they didn't equalize in the last twenty mins. I feel sorry for him and I think he's a good manager. Norwich finished 11th last season and I think they will stay up this season

malky will go there next season if they stay up or if they go down, be interesting to see what he does in the champ without a big budget, yeah he got us playoff first season with little money but still had a core of good players from DJ and some bargins like Conway for free etc, other teams weren't best that season aswell but great achievement never the less but at Watford he didn't do anything of note, will be very interesting see how he does elsewhere that's for sure, thank him for a lot of things but he isn't the great manager some people make him out to be, great guy and decent manager, do you think phil brown is called great by hull or davies great by derby fans or even aidy boothroyd by Watford? they all got their teams in prem and somewhat gone of the boil into the lower leagues bar davies who shouldn't of been sacked by forest

Not a surpirse, he has done ok but they needed better after lambert. Hope Malky goes to them.

Great time to sack a manager that has done so well for them, I hope they go down now