MICKY ADAMS

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

Contents

Playing career

Managerial career

Fulham

Swansea City

Brentford

Brighton

Leicester

Coventry City

Colchester

Managerial stats

External links

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.

Managerial career

Fulham

Adams moved into management with Fulham, taking over from Ian Branfoot in March 1996 with the London club languishing in 91st place in the league pyramid. After he had help the club avoid non-league football, Fulham were promoted to Division Two as runners-up in the following season's final table.
Following the takeover of Fulham by Mohammed Al Fayed, Adams was dismissed as manager in September 1997 in favour of Kevin Keegan (director of football) and Ray Wilkins (head coach).

Swansea City

Shortly after his dismissal from Fulham, 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.

Brentford

Before 1997 was out, Adams took his third job of the 1997-98 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.

Brighton

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.

Leicester

In October 2001, 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 inferior to Leicester's.
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.

Coventry City

In February 2005, 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.
Midway through the following season however, following a run of five games without defeat, Coventry suddenly and unexpectedly hit a bad run of form. A 5-0 defeat at West Bromwich Albion began a sequence of eight games without a win, including six defeats. This culminated in a 2-0 home defeat to Bristol City in the FA Cup, a game which also saw a record low attendance at the Ricoh Arena.
On 17 January, 2007, the day after the cup exit, the club parted company with Adams, with Coventry lying 16th in the Championship. Adams has stated that he intends to return to management as soon as possible [1]. He admitted that the the sale of Gary McSheffrey to Birmingham City had been a turning point in the club's season.

Colchester

In July 2007, Adams was appointed by Colchester United as assistant manager to Geraint Williams replacing Mick Harford who had left the previous month.[2]

Managerial stats

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
Fulham		August 1 1996	September 25 1997	63	30	17	16	47.61
Swansea City		October 9 1997	October 22 1997	3	0	3	0	00.00
Brentford		November 5 1997	July 1 1998	33	7	11	15	21.21
Nottingham Forest		January 5 1999	January 11 1999	1	0	1	0	00.00
Brighton & Hove Albion		April 12 1999	October 10 2001	125	57	34	34	45.60
Leicester City		April 7 2002	October 11 2004	111	41	32	38	36.93
Coventry City		January 23 2005	January 17 2007	99	33	40	26	33.33

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