Former Millwall boss Gary Rowett is back in football management at one of former clubs.
Rowett, who left Millwall in October last year, just shy of his four year anniversary in charge has taken over Birmingham City until the end of the season.
Current boss Tony Mowbray has been absent from the Blues since mid February after taking a break for treatment on an unnamed illness. His deputy Mark Venus has been in charge since. Mowbray will take a formal medical absence with Venus also stepping aside until the start of next season.
Rowett is no stranger to Birmingham having played for the club and also managed them between 2014 and 2016 before being sacked with the club outside the play-off places on goal difference.
The former Stoke boss will be the fifth different person to lead the side this season after John Eustace, Wayne Rooney, Mowbray and Venus.
The Blues have collapsed since the departure of Eustace. They were in the play-offs when he was sacked and replaced by Rooney. They have not won since a 2-1 victory over Sunderland in what proved to be Mowbray’s final game before he took time away for his health.
Rowett has eight games to keep the Midlands side in the Championship, they currently sit in 21st and are outside the relegation places on goal difference alone.