Chief executive Simon Clegg says former manager Roy Keane’s angry exchanges with fans at Monday’s 1-0 home defeat to Nottingham Forest showed that the pressure was starting to get to the Irishman. Keane rowed and gestured towards supporters behind the dug-out and on the way back to the tunnel after the club’s seventh loss in nine games.

Clegg said: “What that pointed out to me was that the pressure was getting to him, because Roy normally doesn’t react like that. “That was him venting his frustration at the situation, not at the fans, but at the general situation he found himself in.”

The chief executive says supporters’ views are significant but that ultimately the decision to sack Keane was down to him and owner Marcus Evans: “Obviously the fans are critically important to us and I have listened to the vocal minority and the silent majority as well. Of course it was an important factor that we take into account.

“But ultimately the decision on who is employed as our manager is down to the owner and myself, and we have to make that decision in terms of what’s in the best interest of the club.”

Clegg and Evans are spending the weekend speaking to prospective new managers with Paul Jewell's name the one continuing to appear most often in newspaper speculation.

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Nscarff added 18:49 - Jan 9 Curbs has been lined up for alot of jobs but he has been holding out for an established prem club, I dont think he would be too interested in taking on a struggling championship team as much as i would like him to. If the Hodgson "a good friend with Marcus Evans" rumours are true, then come on Evans open your wallet up and give hodgson a deal untill the end of the season with the option of an extension based of objectives such as points, win percentages etc. Look at the team he got in the UEFA cup final, they wernt exactly the best team in the competition, but he got the absolute best out of them through tactics etc. Couldn't care less what happend at liverpool, they have been relying on a core of players (Reina, Carragher, Alsonso, Gerrard, Torres) for years, now that its been broken up (Sold Alonso, coupled with Torres poor form) theyve fallen apart, predictable.

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RexCarr added 18:56 - Jan 9 We all know that Alan Curbishley was the manager of Charlton & West Ham but does anybody remember who his brother Bill Curbishley used to manage ??
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alfromcol added 19:36 - Jan 9 It is Jewel, unless they send him another letter and say sorry we have changed our mind and are appointing Hodgson Pity Hodgson wasn't fired a week earlier
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Dorsetblue added 19:52 - Jan 9 Now as an employer they have a duty of care towards there staff, so if they knew Keane was in trouble why didn't they get some help in for him.... You never know maybe a claim coming for stress.... or the pay off is big enough to take the blow. Who ever we get in, I just hope he is given time and money and more importantly resources to get the job done. O' Driscoll would be my choice, or the bloke from the club up the road, they will need the money and he can get a squad of players who didn't know what to do into a well oiled unit. But lets see......................

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rolly added 20:21 - Jan 9 We should have made it clear we wanted curbs today!!
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Fatcatevans added 20:24 - Jan 9 Irrespective of Roy Keanes faults the fact that he was on a two year contract that was terminated by a faceless owner by a phone call says more about Evans than it does about the former manager. It was a cowardly act. Compare that to the way the Cobbolds would have handled the same situation and it is obvious how far we have fallen
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Facefacts added 20:28 - Jan 9 Clegg and ME are clueless. Met in London, got a list of criteria to measure managerial candidates against. Needs a miracle worker. Why tell the manager he's sacked before you've got a replacement lined up? Real possibility of going down to League 1 now. They don't know what they're doing, the whole infrastructure's gone, and the poster who said Ramsey and Robson would be crying is right.

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BrandonsBlues added 20:40 - Jan 9 Whomever is appointed there will be those fans for and those against, even if it was Alex Ferguson. I agree that RK should never have been appointed in the first place, but still wished him well until it became clear quite early on he did not have a clue. Some of you say that some managers have been outr of the game to long. How long was RK out of management between Sunderland & ITFC, 4 months, and look what good that was for him and us. It is about the right circumstances. Wrong man, wrong club. Interesting that Clegg admitted that he and ME should shoulder some of the blame. To many people running ITFC know nothing about football, and have no direct interest in ther club. Teams that are poor have to many loan players, portsmouth are a prime example. In the Prem nearly every club is owned by business men or investors and when the heart of the club dies the problem starts. The heart of ITFC has been taken from the fans, and any more mistakes by the owner and his henchmen and you will see this club like so many others lose its identity and a gulf open up between the fans and the owners

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big_gaz67 added 21:33 - Jan 9 Rex Carr - The Who (and he still does!)
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Crazee added 22:21 - Jan 9 Not surprised Keano was showing the strain with some of the insults he was having to face and carrying that muppet Clegg! Let's hope the next lamb to the slaughter gets a bit more support
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TractorRoyNo1 added 11:34 - Jan 10 If you SUPPORT the club, for $%&£-sake give the new guy a chance!
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footyfan182 added 12:42 - Jan 10 Shame we won't be able to put back changes Keane made in the academy to Bring back Brian Klug and Tony Humes get the academy back to winning ways.
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