• Former Celtic manager agrees 18-month contract at Ewood Park • Mowbray’s first game in charge will be Friday’s trip to Burton Albion

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Blackburn Rovers have appointed Tony Mowbray as the club’s new head coach, after Owen Coyle was sacked on Tuesday.

Coyle, who joined the club in June 2016, left Rovers second-bottom of the Championship, three points away from safety after losing 16 league games this season and winning only seven.

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Mowbray, who has managed at the highest level in England and Scotland, has agreed an 18-month contract at Ewood Park.

The 53-year-old former Middlesbrough, West Bromwich Albion and Celtic manager was most recently in charge of League One side Coventry City, before resigning in September.

Mowbray will take training for the first time on Wednesday afternoon, and his first game in charge will be Friday’s Championship match away at Burton Albion.

Mowbray’s management team will see the club’s head of academy coaching, David Lowe, become assistant manager while the former Blackburn midfielder David Dunn has been named first-team coach.