Tim Sherwood has confirmed that he is out of the running for the vacant manager’s job at Crystal Palace because he didn’t feel wanted. The position has become one of the most talked about topics in English football after the extraordinary developments surrounding Malky Mackay earlier in the week and Sherwood’s decision to rule himself out, will be sure to take a lot of people by surprise.
Mackay had been hotly tipped to take up the post at Selhurst Park but the emergence of some damning revelations about his time in charge of Cardiff put paid to that and it had been assumed that Sherwood was now one of the frontrunners. However, in a column in Saturday’s Independent, Sherwood has revealed that he has been asked not to be considered for the position anymore.
If I had been offered the job early in the process, soon after my interview, I would have taken it. The longer the process went on at Palace and the more names that came up, the more I felt that Steve was keeping his options open.
I know a lot of managers were interested but at some point, as a manager, you want to know the interviews have stopped and you’re the club’s first choice. That was why on Thursday night my agent sent a message to Steve to say that I was no longer interested in being in contention for the job.
That’s certainly an interesting thought process from Sherwood. Some people were probably overly critical of the former Tottenham manager during his time at White Hart Lane but even those who defended him will surely find this a bit hard to stomach. Someone must have already told him this, but beating out stiff competition is kind of a pre-requisite for landing a job in the Premier League.
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