Tony Adams to Granada: five strange managerial appointments

Ex-Gunners captain named boss at El Grana

La Liga side Granada raised a few eyebrows on Monday when filling their vacant manager position with ex-Arsenal and England captain Tony Adams. The Romford born centre-back moves to Los Carmenes with Granada currently second-bottom of La Liga, only Osasuna worse off. There’s much work to be done, with Gijon two points better in 18^th, but 17^th place Leganes seven higher.

First on Adams’ to-do list will be sorting a defence that has leaked 65 goals already this season. Will he be a success? Only time will tell, until then we use this opportunity to look at another five managerial appointments that caught us off-guard…..

John Barnes – Celtic

Strange, and it worked out to be woeful for The Bhoys. Barnes, a legendary player, would obviously make a great manager, wouldn’t he, surely in Scottish football? Kenny Dalglish was supposed to be there to hold his hand in the early days, but it’s believed the king spent much of his time on the golf course. On the football pitch there hasn’t been many Celtic team’s quite as bad as the one who played under John Barnes. It was his first managerial job, and pretty much his last too. For more on how it all ended, read Super Caley go ballistic, Celtic are atrocious.

Paul Gascoigne – Kettering

What were the Kettering board thinking? This could only have been a publicity stunt for the minnows of English football, and one planned out on the back of a bus ticket. Gazza was in no place mentally or physically to be managing a football team, and despite telling the press he was in it for the long haul, he lasted just 39 days, and it all ended ugly. Owner Imraan Ladak blamed Paul’s alcohol problems, Gazza pointed at the owner, saying he wanted to be a football manager, and constantly interfered, without knowing anything about the game.