Wilshere in charge at Norwich after Thorup sacking
Jack Wilshere has been placed in interim charge of Norwich City, which has sacked head coach Johannes Hoff Thorup with two league games left in the season.
Thorup's departure comes after back-to-back defeats over the Easter weekend, with Norwich losing 5-3 to Portsmouth before being beaten 3-1 by Millwall.
It ended a run of six defeats in eight matches with the Canaries winless in their past five outings.
The club had been on the fringes of the play-offs before that run, but Thorup leaves with the club 14th, 13 points behind sixth-placed Coventry City.
Wilshere, who was appointed as Norwich's first-team coach last October, will oversee the club's last two games, starting with Middlesbrough this weekend before finishing the season away at Cardiff City on 4 May (AEST).
"While we made this appointment with a long-term focus and in line with our wider club strategy and direction, unfortunately, recent results and performances have deemed it necessary for us to make a change," sporting director Ben Knapper said on the decision.
Thorup won just 13 of the 44 games he oversaw in the Championship, with his win percentage sitting at 29.55. Norwich averaged 1.2 points per game during his time in charge.
Norwich has scored the second-most goals in the league this season with 67, with only current leader Leeds United netting more, with 89.
However, it has struggled defensively, conceding 66 times.
Thorup is the third Championship manager to lose his job since the start of the Easter weekend, after Cardiff's Omer Riza and Tony Mowbray at West Bromwich Albion.
Norwich is the 14th of the 24 clubs in the league to change its managers this season.
