Norwich City: 5 Reasons Lee Clark Should Be Made Manager

3. He Has History With Norwich

When former Newcastle United manager Glenn Roeder took over at Norwich, he almost immediately got in touch with his former employers to check on the availability of Clark, then working as a coach at St James Park - a position that Roeder had appointed him to almost 18 months previously. Clark joined Roeder on the Norwich staff as assistant manager, helping the manager to save the club from relegation, having joined with the team in the bottom three - it might not have been pretty, with a good run of form making way for a poor one in February and safety only confirmed after the penultimate match of the season, but it was still an impressive achievement. Clark ultimately left Norwich back in December 2008, a month before the axe fell on manager Roeder, to become Huddersfiield boss, and he will no doubt consider his business at Carrow Road as yet unfinished. He knows the club, having spent more than a year as assistant manager, and importantly he showed enough coaching nous while he was there to attract Huddersfield's attention, despite only having a little over two years of coaching experience. Having made the next step up since, and turned Huddersfield into contenders despite the constraints of the job, now might well be the perfect time for Clark to return to Carrow Road.