{"id":64006,"date":"2022-05-19T07:32:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T06:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp\/?p=64006"},"modified":"2022-05-19T07:32:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T06:32:47","slug":"calderwood-to-join-swansea-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp\/2022\/05\/19\/calderwood-to-join-swansea-coaching-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Calderwood to join Swansea coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nottingham Forest, Tottenham Hotspur and Scotland defender Colin Calderwood is set to join the coaching staff at Swansea City and leave his job as assistant manager at Northampton Town.<\/p>\n<p>Calderwood watched the cobblers depart the play offs yesterday evening with a 3-1 defeat to Mansfield Town on aggregate less than two weeks after they missed out on automatic promotion thanks to a dramatic 7-0 win for Bristol Rovers on the last day of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Calderwood was assistant manager to Chris Hughton at Norwich at a time when Russell Martin was at Carrow Road and himself has had managerial spells at Northampton, Cambridge, Nottingham Forest and Hibernian.\u00a0 \u00a0He re joined Northampton last year after a spell as assistant at Blackpool.<\/p>\n<p>Swansea have had a vacancy in their coaching set-up since assistant head coach Luke Williams&#8217; exit in February.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Gill stepped up from his role as technical development coach to serve as Martin&#8217;s number two until the end of the season and he will now fill that position on a permanent basis, with Calderwood arriving as a coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nottingham Forest, Tottenham Hotspur and Scotland defender Colin Calderwood is set to join the coaching staff at Swansea City and leave his job as assistant manager at Northampton Town. 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