Betting: Odds on Ferguson's successor
WITHIN hours of the rumours of Darren Ferguson's departure bookmakers opened the betting on who would succeed him at London Road with Skybet.com making Peter Taylor and Steve Coppell joint 4-1 favourites.
WITHIN hours of the rumours of Darren Ferguson's departure bookmakers opened the betting on who would succeed him at London Road with Skybet.com making Peter Taylor and Steve Coppell joint 4-1 favourites.Taylor, once linked with Posh as a player in his days as a flying winger with Crystal Palace, would be returning to London Road for a second time as he had a spell helping with the coaching in the days when director of football Barry Fry was manager.
He is currently out of work, having been sacked by League One strugglers Wycombem while Coppell quit Reading in the summer after failing to get them back into the Premier League at the first time of asking.
England legend Alan Shearer is 25-1 to make Posh his first permanent managerial post, having failed to keep Newcastle in the Premier League during an eight-game temporary spell at the end of last season, and his assistant during those eight games - Iain Dowie - is also in the betting at 8-1.
One highly-unlikely name on the list is former Posh boss Mark Wright, who was previously sacked by Fry, while highest on the list of those currently in a managerial post is Oxford manager Chris Wilder who has worked wonders in the Blue Square Premier this season.
Latest odds (9 November):
4-1 Peter Taylor (no club)
4-1 Steve Coppell (no club)
8-1 Iain Dowie (no club)
8-1 Gary McAllister (no club)
10-1 Tony Adams (no club)
10-1 Gareth Southgate (no club)
12-1 Chris Wilder (Oxford)
12-1 Steve Cotterill (no club)
14-1 Neil Warnock (Crystal Palace)
16-1 Ian McParland (no club)
16-1 Andy Hesenthaler (Dover)
16-1 Paul Tisdale (Exexter)
16-1 Andy Scott (Brentford)
16-1 Alan Curbishley (no club)
16-1 Paul Jewell (no club)
20-1 Glenn Roeder (no club)
20-1 Danny Wilson (Swindon)
20-1 Paul Trollope (Bristol Rovers)
20-1 John Hughes (Hibs)
20-1 John Barnes (no club)
20-1 David O'Leary (no club)
25-1 Alan Shearer (no club)
33-1 Mark Wright (no club)
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Managers currently out of a job:
THERE are currently 49 managers listed as out of work with the Football League Managers' Association:
Tony Adams
John Barnes
Dave Bassett
Paul Bracewell
Ian Branfoot
Ian Brightwell
Alan Buckley
Steve Coppell
Steve Cotterill
Alan Curbishley
Simon Davey
Bobby Davison
Dean Glover
Stuart Gray
John Gregory
Ruud Gullit
Bryan Gunn
Mick Harford
John Hollins
Peter Jackson
Paul Jewell
Kevin Keegan
Gary McAllister
Charlie McFarland
Mike Newell
David O'Leary
Tony Parkes
Gary Peters
Jimmy Quinn
Kevin Ratcliffe
Lee Richardson
Andy Ritchie
Graham Rodger
Glenn Roeder
Leroy Rosenior
Lawrie Sanchez
Russell Slade
Denis Smith
Graeme Souness
Kit Symons
Peter Taylor
Stan Ternent
Steve Thompson
Gudjon Thordason
Colin Todd
Gianluca Vialli
Denni sWise
Mark Wotte
Mark Wright
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