I'm Neil Adams, aha!

Norwich City became the latest club to hit the panic button (marked 'eject') with Chris Hughton able to start his summer holidays earlier than expected.  It means not a single club out of 92 in the football league pyramid employs a black, Asian or mixed-race person as their manager, which is disgraceful.  In place of Hughton, Norwich offered their vacancy to a rookie with absolutely no previous front-line managerial experience - Neil Adams - who just happens to be white.  Why couldn't they have done that with someone who wasn't white - experience of management was clearly not high on their list of priorities, so pretty much anyone could have been put forward.  There are unemployed black coaches out there - Paul Ince, John Barnes, Chris Powell; Sol Campbell would also be up for the challenge.  Norwich City aren't racist for they employed Hughton in the first place but it's disappointing that they could not have been more a role model.
Adams, struggling to shake off an Alan Partridge tag, was working on local radio merely two years ago and, as a player, ex-Canaries gaffer Glenn Roeder, said Adams would never be above the level of an under-10s coach.  Next match is against relegation specialist (and European Cup winner as a player) Felix Magath, followed in their last four matches by the current top four in the Premier League.  Maybe Norwich are hoping for a short-term boost from a new manager (dead cat bounce) in beating Fulham at Craven Cottage (five defeats out of the last five visits for the team from Norfolk) with the final four games a write-off and hoping that the bottom three don't start pulling off miracles.  Fulham in particular have a very favourable run-in to the end of the season.
However, it all has shades of Canaries playing legend Bryan Gunn, who despite no first-team managerial record was appointed caretaker boss in January 2009 - the team were relegated to third tier for the first time in nearly half a century come the end of May.  He was reappointed in a full-time position and on the opening day of the season lost 7-1 at home to East Anglian rivals Colchester United.  Within a week, Gunn was gone.  Who knows, maybe Adams will have a run like that of Russ Wilcox, who has set a league record of most games undefeated since taking over as boss (at Scunthorpe, he is now 25 matches unbeaten).  The odds favour a Gunn re-run.