Strachan leads the pack in Middlesbrough manager betting

In a move that has surprised football fans across the country the former Middlesbrough player Gareth Southgate who became their manager in 2006 has been sacked from his position of manager by Chairman Steve Gibson. The sacking came after the team managed by Southgate beat Derby convincingly 2-0 at the Riverside Stadium.

Middlesbrough were relegated from the Barclays Premiership last season but kept Southgate on and he has managed to keep his team in fourth place and 1 point off the top of the Coca Cola Championship table. The manager in the spotlight to take over at Middlesbrough is Gordon Strachan who has seen himself linked with almost every vacant managers job lately.

The reasoning behind the dismissal of Southgate according to Gibson was that Southgate no longer fitted in with the long term goals of the club, Gibson released a statement saying “We had a strategy for Gareth’s replacement. Timing was determined by the implementation of that strategy.”

Next Permanent Middlesbrough Manager Odds

• 9/2 – Gordon Strachan
• 5/1 – Irvine
• 7/1 – Alan Curbishley
• 8/1 – Steve Coppell
• 10/1 – Pearson
• 10/1 – Paul Ince
• 12/1 – Iain Dowie
• 12/1 – Gus Poyet
• 12/1 – Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
• 12/1 – Glenn Hoddle
• 12/1 – Grahame Souness
• 16/1 - D O’Leary
• 20/1 – Tony Adams
• 20/1 – Slaven Bilic
• 33/1 – Bryan Robson
• 33/1 – Dean Windass

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