2021

Nigel Adkins, Charlton Athletic – 21 October 2021

We all love a good rendition of ‘you’re getting sacked in the morning’, even when it is aimed at one of football’s nice guys, Nigel Adkins. Both us and Charlton were darkening the bottom ten in League One when this fixture rolled around. Neither side were great – Jayden Stockley gave us the lead with an own goal, and Sam Lavelle levelled not long after. Charlton, with one defeat in four going into the game, thought they were heading for a point, before Regan Poole won it at the death.

It did take a 3-2 defeat against Accrington a couple of days later to tip Adkins over the edge, but by the time they faced Sunderland the week after this game, he was gone. That puts him in the wider group of departures soon after playing City, rather than the list of managers for whom we were the final opponents.