Souness Is Sent Down the Road Manager Is Dismissed but What Now for Newcastle?
The Herald › February 03, 2006
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FREDDY SHEPHERD, the Newcastle United chairman, buckled under public pressure again yesterday, terminating the contract of manager Graeme Souness and installing Alan Shearer, the club captain, as temporary assistant to caretakermanager Glenn Roeder.
Less than 17 months after having sacked the increasingly unpopular Sir Bobby Robson, Shepherd must now go head to head with the Football Association to appoint a manager that will meet the approval of the Toon Army.See the full content of this document
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Souness Is Sent Down the Road Manager Is Dismissed but What Now for Newcastle?
Sam Allardyce, who rejected the club's overtures in 2004, has been installed as the bookmakers' favourite to succeed Souness, although the timing of the latest Tyne clear out could, ironically, rule the Bolton manager out ...
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