{"id":590554,"date":"2026-05-18T12:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/590554\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T12:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:31:10","slug":"chris-hogg-northampton-town-appoint-new-manager-on-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/590554\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hogg: Northampton Town appoint new manager on two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northampton Town have appointed former Norwich City assistant head coach Chris Hogg as their manager on a two-year contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 41-year-old left Norwich in November following Liam Manning&#8217;s departure, having also been his number two at MK Dons, Oxford United and Bristol City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Cobblers defender and captain Chris Doig will be Hogg&#8217;s assistant head coach after leaving the same role at Boston United.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The work has already started to try and deliver a successful season,&#8221; he told the club website. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The teams I have coached in the past have placed great value on possession of the ball, to dominate opponents, and I still value those traits &#8211; but let me be clear, this is a results business and I have always wanted to win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will change the mentality and build up the connection between the players and the supporters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hogg replaces Kevin Nolan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c0lxe5kge6jo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who was sacked<\/a> on 9 March with the club 23rd in League One, having won only one of their previous 16 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Technical director Colin Calderwood was put in interim charge but they lost 10 games in a row under him and finished six points adrift at the bottom of the table, 17 points from safety. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northampton Town have appointed former Norwich City assistant head coach Chris Hogg as their manager on a two-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-590554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}