Chris Dunlavy

Hecky’s done the business in spite of chaos

by
The LeaguePaper Team
30 April 2023

Chris Dunlavy

Paul Heckingbottom said his Sheffield United squad were “written off” before winning promotion to the Premier League.
They weren’t the only ones. Hecky’s own managerial career lay in tatters when he accepted an offer from Chris Wilder to run United’s Under-21 side in July 2020.
Bombed out by Leeds to make way for Marcelo Bielsa, the 45-year-old was then sacked by Hibernian after winning just once in 11 games at the start of the 2019- 20 campaign.
Stepping into the wreckage of the post-Wilder Premier League campaign, he lost his first game as caretaker 5-0 to Leicester and ove...

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