Steve Evans axed by Rotherham after embarrassing home defeat
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ROTHERHAM have sacked manager Steve Evans.
The Millers have struggled this campaign following relegation from the Championship and have fired Evans following a 4-0 home defeat to Crawley.
Head and shoulders shot of Steve Evans.
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Rotherham have sacked manager Steve Evans
Evans was appointed in April last year but could not prevent Rotherham from avoiding the drop.
He was entrusted with a huge rebuild in South Yorkshire and signed 14 players in the summer.
But he could not deliver on expectations to challenge for promotion, and he leaves with Rotherham 16th in League One.
Rotherham have won just 12 league games this season and failed to pick up three points in their last four fixtures.
Evans, 62, apologised following the mauling against his former side Crawley and accepted his "credit" may have run out.
He said post-match: “The fans have watched an abject performance.
“The fans don’t want to hear apologies – they want the performance to be right.
“I will always protect my players. I think a lot of those players have not got credit in the bank at this football club. Maybe my credit will run out, I don’t know.
“The facts are they have not played in a Rotherham United fashion for much of the season.
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“In the games that they have, we have won games comfortably.
“We won’t make excuses. I offer my apologies. The performance was limp and way off the minimum standards.”
Evans' second stint at the New York Stadium failed to reproduce the success of his first spell, when he led Rotherham to back-to-back promotions from League Two to the Championship.
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