Russell Slade: All you need to know about Cardiff's new boss

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Slade's touchline trademark appearance is his baseball cap. Credit: PA

Russell Slade has finally been confirmed as Cardiff City's new manager, after a protracted departure from previous club Leyton Orient.

Find out more about the new man tasked with getting the Bluebirds back to the Premier League...

THE BASICS

  • Name: Russell Slade

  • Age: 53

  • From: Wokingham

  • Previous clubs managed: Notts County (caretaker), Armitage, Leicester United, Sheffield United (caretaker), Scarborough, Grimsby Town, Yeovil Town, Brighton & Hove Albion, Leyton Orient

DID YOU KNOW?

  • Slade is a former PE teacher - he also coached swimming, badminton, tennis, cricket and athletics while at college

  • He never played football professionally - he was an uncontracted reserve at Notts County

  • He has twice won the League One Manager of the Year award - with Yeovil in 2007, and with Leyton Orient last season

Slade enjoyed success at Yeovil, but couldn't get promoted. Credit: PA

  • Cardiff owner Vincent Tan hired him to take the club back to the Premier League, but Slade has never won promotion as a manager - losing in a play-off final with Grimsby in 2006, with Yeovil in 2007, and with Leyton Orient in 2014

  • His four years spent at Orient, since 2010, made him the fourth longest-serving manager in British football - Tan wants him to eventually become the longest-serving at Cardiff

  • Slade banned his Leyton Orient players from playing computer game FIFA 14 on matchdays, concerned about their focus on their match

  • He didn't spend any money on new players for years at Orient, relying on free transfers - but there's sure to be a bigger budget available to him at the Cardiff City Stadium

Slade enjoyed success at Leyton Orient, before an acrimonious departure for Cardiff. Credit: PA