' Another Championship manager sacked '
Mon Oct 20, 2014 3:09 pm
Birmingham City have sacked manager Lee Clark and his assistant Steve Watson.
Monday 21st Oct 2014
Blues, 21st in the Championship, have placed first-team coach Richard Beale and chief scout Malcolm Crosby in temporary charge at St Andrew's.
Clark, 41, who had been Blues boss since June 2012, helped them avoid relegation on the final day last term.
A club statement confirmed: "The search for a successor has already begun. The board will look to make an appointment in the very near future."
Clark brought Terry McDermott and Derek Fazackerley with him from Huddersfield as his backroom team and the trio steered the club to 12th in their first season, despite off-field difficulties with the club up for sale.
With funds continuing to remain tight, however, City struggled last season.
McDermott and Fazackerley left in February when Clark promoted his old Newcastle United team-mate Watson to be his number two.
And Blues only stayed up on the final day of the season thanks to an injury-time Paul Caddis equaliser at Bolton.
It was following a defeat by Bolton - 1-0 at home on Saturday - that the St Andrew's board, now led by Panos Pavlakis after the departure of Peter Pannu three weeks ago, chose to act.
Clark's sacking came just hours after he had attended a Monday morning news conference to preview Blues' trip to Blackburn on Tuesday evening.
Instead, former Sunderland manager Crosby will have the immediate task of maintaining Blues' recent away form.
Although Blues' poor home record from last season has stretched into this season, their last three away games have brought draws at Norwich and Charlton and a victory at Millwall.
Monday 21st Oct 2014
Blues, 21st in the Championship, have placed first-team coach Richard Beale and chief scout Malcolm Crosby in temporary charge at St Andrew's.
Clark, 41, who had been Blues boss since June 2012, helped them avoid relegation on the final day last term.
A club statement confirmed: "The search for a successor has already begun. The board will look to make an appointment in the very near future."
Clark brought Terry McDermott and Derek Fazackerley with him from Huddersfield as his backroom team and the trio steered the club to 12th in their first season, despite off-field difficulties with the club up for sale.
With funds continuing to remain tight, however, City struggled last season.
McDermott and Fazackerley left in February when Clark promoted his old Newcastle United team-mate Watson to be his number two.
And Blues only stayed up on the final day of the season thanks to an injury-time Paul Caddis equaliser at Bolton.
It was following a defeat by Bolton - 1-0 at home on Saturday - that the St Andrew's board, now led by Panos Pavlakis after the departure of Peter Pannu three weeks ago, chose to act.
Clark's sacking came just hours after he had attended a Monday morning news conference to preview Blues' trip to Blackburn on Tuesday evening.
Instead, former Sunderland manager Crosby will have the immediate task of maintaining Blues' recent away form.
Although Blues' poor home record from last season has stretched into this season, their last three away games have brought draws at Norwich and Charlton and a victory at Millwall.
Re: ' Another Championship manager sacked '
Mon Oct 20, 2014 4:41 pm
Simply a results game. Remember last season the reaction Clark had when they stayed up with him in tears, showed what a down to earth bloke he was, a shame mind
Re: ' Another Championship manager sacked '
Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:57 pm
Birmingham City: Lee Clark SACKED by Blues -
Lee Clark has been sacked by Birmingham City .
And assistant manager Steve Watson has also departed St Andrew’s.
First team coach Richard Beale and head of recruitment Malcolm Crosby have been put in charge of the Blues side on a caretaker basis.
The club’s Hong Kong-based owners brought the axe down on Clark after Saturday’s defeat at Fulham edged Blues closer to the Championship relegation zone.
And a third straight defeat at home extended a dreadful sequence at St Andrew’s, where Blues have only won once - in August - in more than 12 months.
Clark and Watson were both on one-year rolling contracts.
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/f ... ed-7966034?
Lee Clark has been sacked by Birmingham City .
And assistant manager Steve Watson has also departed St Andrew’s.
First team coach Richard Beale and head of recruitment Malcolm Crosby have been put in charge of the Blues side on a caretaker basis.
The club’s Hong Kong-based owners brought the axe down on Clark after Saturday’s defeat at Fulham edged Blues closer to the Championship relegation zone.
And a third straight defeat at home extended a dreadful sequence at St Andrew’s, where Blues have only won once - in August - in more than 12 months.
Clark and Watson were both on one-year rolling contracts.
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/f ... ed-7966034?
Re: ' Another Championship manager sacked '
Mon Oct 20, 2014 10:34 pm
Is this going to be 'another' Malky's got the best odds for the job thread ? 