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Flitcroft sticks with Tykes

Barnsley manager David Flitcroft has agreed a new deal to remain in charge of the club on a permanent basis.

The 39-year-old steered the Tykes to npower Championship survival following their last-day draw at Huddersfield after taking on the role of manager at the end of December.

Barnsley Football Club are delighted to announce that David Flitcroft has agreed terms and will remain as first-team manager at Oakwell.

The new deal will also keep David Flitcroft's assistant manager Micky Mellon, technical coach Martin Scott and the other backroom staff at Oakwell.

– Statement on the Barnsley website

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Zola heads into the unknown

But there is always a bigger game ahead of you. The next one is important and the second leg on Sunday even more important.

If I want to be a successful manager I have to play important game after important game, it is a challenge.

I never played a play-off as a player so I can only imagine the importance is more like playing at a World Cup or European Championship. You are playing a series of finals. But we will take it step by step.

– Watford manager Gianfranco Zola

Murray: Wolves job is a massive task

Dean Saunders' successor as manager at Molineux faces "a massive task" to lift the club in readiness for an instant return to the npower Championship, says former Wolves goalkeeper Matt Murray.

The Wolves players have to realise that in every single game they're going to be a massive scalp

In the Championship Wolves are a big scalp, but in League One other clubs will go there desperate to play them and when they go away to these teams, it's going to be a lion's den.

I think they've still got £16million of parachute payments and everything else, then I believe Wolves can get back.

But the appointment, the person who comes in, it's a massive task just to lift the whole place.

– Matt Murray speaking to Sky Sports News.

Wolves sacked Saunders following the club's relegation to League One and are now in the hunt for their fifth permanent manager in less than 15 months.

Owen Coyle, Peterborough's Darren Ferguson and Kenny Jackett, who resigned as Millwall boss, have been installed among the early favourites.

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