Swindon Sack Kennedy Friday, 25th Oct 2024 13:23 Former Town full-back and academy coach Mark Kennedy has been sacked from his role as Swindon manager. Kennedy, 48, had been in charge of the Robins since May but they have made a poor start to the League Two season, winning only twice and are currently third from bottom. Swindon have made a quick replacement, appointing veteran boss Ian Holloway, who has been out of a job since leaving Grimsby in 2020. Kennedy was brought to Portman Road by his former international team-mate Roy Keane in the summer of 2010 when he signed him for a fee of £75,000 from Cardiff City. Having made 34 starts and three sub appearances without scoring, the one-time Millwall, Liverpool, Manchester City, Wolves and Crystal Palace man began coaching at Playford Road late in the 2011/12 season. Paul Jewell named him his U21s coach the following summer and the Dubliner continued in that role under his former Ireland and Wolves boss Mick McCarthy when he took over as boss in November 2012. Kennedy, who won 34 caps with the Republic of Ireland, scoring four goals, left the Blues to coach Manchester City’s U15s in 2016. After that, he had a short spell coaching the U23s at Wolves, as first-team boss at Macclesfield and first-team coach at Birmingham City. From May 2022 until October 2023 he was manager of Lincoln City and in October 2022 he led the Imps to a 1-0 defeat of the Blues at Portman Road.
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