TONY MOWBRAY is the front-runner to land the West Brom job. The popular manager, 61, has been out of work since having to step down as Birmingham boss last February after being diagnosed with ...

Tony Mowbray has been appointed as West Bromwich Albion’s new head coach, almost 16 years after he left the Hawthorns for Celtic and just a few days after being given the all-clear from cancer.

The 61-year-old stepped down at Birmingham City last February for medical treatment but has now been cleared to return to work Tony Mowbray is in line for an emotional return to West Bromwich Albion.

So it's all done and dusted then - and Tony Mowbray is back at The Hawthorns. But it all means another irony in that Mowbray returns to take over from one of his first summer signings in that ...