Town coach Tony Mowbray is being linked with the vacant manager's post at Hartlepool United. Mowbray is keen to take control of a club himself and has been linked with a number of jobs in the last year or so.

Pools' boss Mike Newell was perhaps surprisingly fired at the weekend after guiding his side to promotion to Division Two. Newell took over from Chris Turner late in 2002 and, while the club still went up, their performances fell away in the latter stages of the season.

Mowbray has been offered a new one-year contract at Town but Joe Royle is well aware of his interest in a club of his own and has said he would not stand in his way if an opportunity arose.

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