Former Wimbledon manager Joe Kinnear has decided against taking the manager's job at Sheffield Wednesday. Kinnear told the Wednesday board yesterday that he would not be taking up the post after the club set him a "short deadline" to make up his mind.

Wednesday put pressure on Kinnear to make a decision because they thought he was stalling to see if something better would come up. It seems they were right. Kinnear is now being linked with the Leicester job as it looks almost certain that Martin O’Neill will leave to lead Celtic back to greatness.
It seems as though the club's financial state was the main reason Kinnear turned down the role at Hillsborough. Kinnear's agent, Jonathan Barnett, has revealed that Wednesday couldn't guarantee his client the 'ammunition' to get Wednesday back into the Premiership.
The rebuke comes as a serious blow to Wednesday who were hoping to appoint Kinnear after opening talks with him last week. They need to get someone in place sooner rather than later if the new man is to have time to get things ready for the challenge of trying to return the Hillsborough team to the top flight at the first attempt.

It is believed that they are now looking at Gillingham’s Peter Taylor. Taylor is one of the most respected young managers in the English game.

He led the English u21 team to qualification for the European Championships but then found himself out of a job, which left everybody scratching their heads. Since then he has worked miracles at Gillingham, earning them promotion to Division One for the first time in their history.

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