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Frank Lampard named LMA manager of year after leading Coventry to Premier League
27 May 2026 Off

Frank Lampard named LMA manager of year after leading Coventry to Premier League

By Total Football News

Frank Lampard has been named the League Managers Association manager of the year after guiding Coventry back to the Premier League.

Lampard’s Sky Blues finished 11 points clear at the top of the Championship to clinch the title and return to the top flight for the first time since the 2000-01 season.

The former England midfielder, who has previously managed Derby, Everton and had two spells in charge at Chelsea

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West Bromwich Albion: Ex-Liverpool analyst Dominic Price named Baggies technical director
6 March 2026 Off

West Bromwich Albion: Ex-Liverpool analyst Dominic Price named Baggies technical director

By Total Football News

Steve Hermon, BBC Radio WM’s West Bromwich Albion reporter.

James Morrison’s appointment as interim head coach for the rest of the season is aimed at bringing some short‑term stability to The Hawthorns, but the club’s long‑term vision is now partly in the hands of another man in his 30s.

Dominic Price’s arrival as technical director had long been expected.

It was a role Albion hinted at in the summer when

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Leicester City: Gary Rowett set to be named new manager
18 February 2026 Off

Leicester City: Gary Rowett set to be named new manager

By Total Football News

Championship strugglers Leicester City are poised to name former player Gary Rowett as their new head coach.

BBC Radio Leicester report the 51-year-old, who was sacked as Oxford boss two months ago, took training on Wednesday.

Rowett now looks set to be the permanent replacement for Marti Cifuentes, who was sacked three weeks ago.

The Foxes are third from bottom in the Championship, two points adrift of safety with 14

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Patrick Bamford: Sheffield United striker named EFL player of month
17 January 2026 Off

Patrick Bamford: Sheffield United striker named EFL player of month

By Total Football News

Sheffield United striker Patrick Bamford has won the English Football League’s player of the month award for December.

Bamford scored four goals across the Blades’ six Championship games in December, including a double in their thrilling 5-3 defeat against Wrexham.

“I’m really happy. I’m surprised, I guess, a little bit because I wasn’t ever thinking about any individual awards and that was the least of my priorities when coming in,

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Eric Ramsay: Ex-Manchester United coach named new West Bromwich Albion boss
11 January 2026 Off

Eric Ramsay: Ex-Manchester United coach named new West Bromwich Albion boss

By Total Football News

By Steve Hermon, West Brom commentator for BBC Radio WM

It has been a dramatic 2026 for West Bromwich Albion and there is a fitting sense of narrative that Eric Ramsay takes the reins just hours after the Baggies have finally ended their away woes at the football club where he earned his first professional coaching role in the game.

His route into coaching began at Swansea after he stopped

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Frank Lampard: Coventry City boss named Championship manager of the month
13 December 2025 Off

Frank Lampard: Coventry City boss named Championship manager of the month

By Total Football News

Once again Coventry have cause for a double celebration with striker Ellis Simms being named the player of the month, following hot on the heels of team-mate Brandon Thomas-Asante claiming the award in October.

The 24-year-old scored five goals in his three starts in November including a brace in each of the victories over Middlesbrough and Charlton, taking his tally to eight in all competitions so far this season.

“This

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Middlesbrough: Kim Hellberg set to be named head coach
19 November 2025 Off

Middlesbrough: Kim Hellberg set to be named head coach

By Total Football News

Boro are second in the table, five points behind Coventry City.

Hellberg, who spent his playing career in the Swedish lower leagues, has a year to run on his Hammarby contract.

He began his coaching career in the Swedish lower divisions with Kuddby IF, moving to IF Sylvia before joining the staff at top-tier club IFK Norrkoping in 2020.

His first head coach’s role in the Allsvenskan came at IFK

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Ipswich Town: Kieran McKenna named Championship manager of the month
15 October 2025 Off

Ipswich Town: Kieran McKenna named Championship manager of the month

By Total Football News

Ipswich Town manager Kieran McKenna has been named the Championship manager of the month for September.

After a slow start to life back in the second tier at Portman Road, the Tractor Boys began to find momentum in September, claiming seven points from a possible nine to stay unbeaten, including a 5-0 demolition of Sheffield United, a 2-1 win over Portsmouth and a 1-1 draw under the lights at Bristol

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Queens Park Rangers: France’s Alou Diarra named first-team coach
26 June 2025 Off

Queens Park Rangers: France’s Alou Diarra named first-team coach

By Total Football News

Former France international Alou Diarra has joined QPR as Julien Stephan’s first-team coach.

Diarra made 44 appearances for Les Bleus, including in the 2006 World Cup final, during a career which saw him represent Lens, Bordeaux and Marseille in Ligue 1 plus West Ham in the Premier League and Charlton in the Championship.

The 43-year-old retired in 2017 and has since coached at Lens, when he came up against Stephan,

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