Micky Adams

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Michael Adams (born 8 November 1961 in Sheffield) is a professional football manager in England and former player.

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[edit] Playing career

Adams began his playing career at Gillingham and also had spells at Coventry City, Leeds United and Southampton. His preferred position was left-back. He scored 4 goals in the 1993-94 Premiership season with Southampton before joining Fulham on a free transfer to link up with former Saints boss Ian Branfoot.

[edit] Managerial career

[edit] Fulham (1996-97): Early promotion success

Micky Adams moved into management with Fulham in March 1996. They finished in the bottom half of Division Three, just a few weeks after Adams took over from Ian Branfoot, but were promoted to Division Two as runners-up in the following season's final table.

Following the takeover of Fulham FC by Mohammed Al Fayed, Micky Adams was dismissed as manager in September 1997 in favour of Kevin Keegan (director of football) and Ray Wilkins (head coach).

[edit] Swansea City (1997): 13-day reign

Shortly after his dismissal from Fulham, Micky Adams made a quick return to management with Swansea City in Division Three but left after 13 days. Adams claimed that the money he had been promised to strengthen the team had not been forthcoming, but within days he had joined Brentford.

It was subsequently alleged that he had been engaged in discussions with at least one London club at the same time as his negotiations with Swansea.

[edit] Brentford (1997-98): Relegation

Before 1997 was out, Micky Adams took his third job of the 97-98 season when he was named manager of Brentford in place of David Webb. Brentford had suffered a slump in league form after losing the previous season's Division Two playoff final, and were struggling near the foot of the table. Brentford were relegated to Division Three on the last day of the season, and the club was bought out by Ron Noades who installed himself as the new Brentford manager.

Adams was the caretaker manager for Nottingham Forest for a single Premiership game in 1998-99, which he lost.

[edit] Brighton (1999-2001): Reviving fortunes for the Seagulls

Micky Adams returned to management in April 1999 with Division Three underdogs Brighton & Hove Albion. In his second full season as manager, 2000-01, Adams guided Brighton to promotion as Division Three champions after the club had spent five seasons in the league's basement division. He set the foundations for Brighton to achieve a second successive promotion as Division Two champions in 2001-02.

[edit] Leicester (2001-2004): Fighting the odds

In October 2001, Micky Adams left Brighton to become assistant manager to Dave Bassett at Leicester City. Peter Taylor, the former Leicester manager, was drafted in to complete Brighton's promotion campaign.

Adams, meanwhile, spent six months working under Bassett and during that time Leicester were almost permanently stuck to the bottom of the Premiership. Just before relegation was confirmed, Adams was promoted to the manager's seat while Bassett became Director of Football.

Despite Leicester going into receivership with debts of £30million and being banned from the transfer market until a takeover was completed, Adams was able to guide them to promotion back to the Premiership at the first attempt - they ended the 2002-03 season as Division One runners-up behind champions Portsmouth.

Leicester slipped back down again in 2003-04 in 18th place, bracketed together with the two other relegated sides - Leeds United and Wolverhampton - whose goal difference was weaker than Leicester's.

Micky Adams resigned as Leicester manager in October 2004 after a poor start to the Coca Cola League Championship campaign dashed the club's hopes of an instant return to the Premiership.

[edit] Coventry City (2005-): Revival for the Sky Blues?

In February 2005, Micky Adams made a return to management in the Coca Cola Championship with struggling Coventry City, a club he had been at during his playing career. Adams managed to save the club from relegation that year. He was expected by some to mount a challenge for promotion to the Premiership in 2005-06, which was the club's first season in the new Ricoh Arena. The team started out poorly, but improved in the second half of the season to rise up the table. However despite excellent home form, he could only guide Coventry as high as 8th, missing out on a play-off place by only two league places, though several points adrift of that year's standard. But this gave the massive following of 32,000 Coventry fans hope that they could push from promotion to the Premiership in 2006-07, something that they had failed to do since their relegation in 2001.

[edit] Managerial stats

Team Nat From To Record
G W L D Win %
Fulham England August 1, 1996 September 25, 1997 63 30 17 16 47.61
Swansea City Wales October 9, 1997 October 22, 1997 3 0 3 0 0
Brentford England November 5, 1997 July 1, 1998 33 7 11 15 21.21
Nottingham Forest England January 5, 1999 January 11, 1999 1 0 1 0 0
Brighton & Hove Albion England April 12, 1999 October 10, 2001 125 57 34 34 45.6
Leicester City England April 7, 2002 October 11, 2004 111 41 32 38 36.93
Coventry City England January 23, 2005 Present 90 32 34 24 35.55

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Preceded by:
Ian Branfoot		 Fulham F.C. manager
1996-1997		 Succeeded by:
Ray Wilkins
Preceded by:
Jan Mølby		 Swansea City F.C. manager
Oct 1997		 Succeeded by:
Alan Cork
Preceded by:
Eddie May and Clive Walker		 Brentford F.C. manager
1997-1998		 Succeeded by:
Ron Noades
Preceded by:
Dave Bassett		 Nottingham Forest F.C. manager
Jan 1999 (caretaker)		 Succeeded by:
Ron Atkinson (caretaker)
Preceded by:
Jeff Wood		 Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. manager
1999-2001		 Succeeded by:
Bob Booker (caretaker)
Preceded by:
Dave Bassett		 Leicester City F.C. manager
2002-2004		 Succeeded by:
Dave Bassett (caretaker)
Preceded by:
Adrian Heath		 Coventry City F.C. manager
2005-present		 Succeeded by:
Incumbent


Coventry City F.C. - Current Squad

2 Whing | 3 Hall | 4 Page | 5 Ward | 6 Hughes | 7 Andrews | 8 Doyle | 9 Adebola | 10 Kyle | 11 Birchall | 13 González-Robles | 14 John | 15 McKenzie | 16 Osbourne | 18 McNamee | 19 Giddings | 20 Bischoff | 21 Tabb | 22 Hutchison | 23 Cameron | 24 Duffy | 25 Virgo | 26 Clarke | 29 Thornton | 33 Marshall | Manager: Adams
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