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Mowbray sacked from Boro apparently.

 

From the Daily Fail, but still:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2470452/Tony-Mowbray-leaves-Middlesbrough-difficult-start-Championship-season.html#ixzz2iOieOveV

Mowbray axed by Middlesbrough after defeat to bottom-of-the-table Barnsley

 

Middlesbrough chairman Steve Gibson will start the search for a new manager after sacking Tony Mowbray.

 

Former Middlesbrough midfielder Graeme Souness, ex-Sunderland boss Martin O’Neill, Nigel Clough, Gary Megson, Danny Wilson and former Stoke manager Tony Pulis are in the running after Mowbray’s three-year reign was brought to an end following Boro’s appalling start to the season.

 

Mowbray’s assistant Mark Venus is in temporary charge of the club. They play Doncaster Rovers at the Riverside on Friday night.

 

Gibson acted after Saturday’s 3-2 defeat at Barnsley, which he attended. Middlesbrough were three-down at half-time and the Boro chairman had to listen to travelling fans chant `you’re getting sacked in the morning’ before a much-improved second-half performance.

 

That looked to have saved Redcar-born Mowbray, who until Monday was the Championship’s longest-serving manager. He took training as usual in the morning but after a tense meeting with Gibson in the afternoon, the Teesside businessman reluctantly parted company with the man who was Middlesbrough captain in the 80s and 90s during an even darker period for the club.

 

Appointed in October 2010, Mowbray had the difficult task of stripping back Gordon Strachan’s overpaid and under-achieving team with the Premier League parachute money well and truly spent.

 

They were in the top three for most of last season until January and then went on an abysmal run of three wins from 21 games and finished 16th.

 

Boro have won just five games this calendar year, including two this season and just one away. They are currently 16th again, 10 points adrift of the top six and just four from Barnsley and the drop zone.

 

The top six remains Gibson’s target and he must now sift through the list to find the man to lead a club which, due to Boro’s budget, is not the attraction it was when he made Bryan Robson his first appointment nearly 20 years ago.

 

All of the leading candidates are out of work. The favourite is Souness who remains popular at the club while O’Neill, who is still in the running for the vacant Republic of Ireland job, nearly joined Boro in 2001.

 

Oh God, let it be :lol:

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I can't decide whether it's a case of he or Middlesbrough wouldn't sink that low. He truly is the town of Middlesbrough of football management.

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We must have been pretty close to playing with a full English XI in 2010...

 

                  Harper

 

Simpson Taylor Williamson Perch

 

Routledge Nolan Smith Barton

               

              Carroll Best

 

Could've been possible.

 

 

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