Tony Mowbray: West Bromwich Albion sack head coach

West Bromwich Albion have sacked head coach Tony Mowbray after just three months of his second spell in charge.

The 61-year-old was dismissed after Monday’s 3-1 home defeat by relegation-threatened Derby County – a loss that all but ends the Baggies’ hopes of making the Championship play-offs.

The former Blackburn Rovers and Middlesbrough boss was reappointed as Albion head coach in January, almost 16 years after he left The Hawthorns for Celtic in June 2009.

He replaced Carlos Corberan who left the club to take over at Spanish top-flight side Valencia with the Baggies then sitting seventh in the table.

But Mowbray has led the club to just five wins in his 18 games in charge and they are six points off the play-off spots in 10th place with two games to play.

While the club can mathematically still make the top six, it would take a unlikely set of results for them to have a chance.

Mowbray’s assistant Mark Venus has also left the club, with James Morrison placed in interim charge, assisted by Damia Abella and Boaz Myhill.