Hughton will bounce back from ‘crazy’ sacking

Brian Kerr believes Norwich succumbed to panic in sacking Chris Hughton and reckons the club have taken a huge gamble putting former youth coach Neil Adams in charge for the critical Premier League run-in.

“It is absolute panic but then they’ve been panicking for a good while,” says Kerr who, as Republic of Ireland manager had former international Hughton as his assistant.

“A couple of months ago, the club’s chief executive David McNally said if they were relegated it would be worse than dying and they seemed to be lining Chris up for the sack even then. But now it’s sheer panic because I fail to see the logic of putting the youth team fella in. Not alone have they got rid of Chris, they’ve got rid of his assistants Colin Calderwood and Paul Trollope and replaced them with the youth team manager for what is now the five most crucial games of the season.