Tony Mowbray returns to management after winning cancer battle.

Tony Mowbray, the former Celtic manager, has returned to managing after overcoming cancer. The 61-year-old has taken leadership of West Bromwich Albion in the English Championship, where they are now eighth in the table. The hiring comes just a few days after Mowbray was given the all-clear from bowel cancer, which forced him to step down from his job as Birmingham manager in May of last year. Mowbray will return to the Baggies’ dugout for their meeting against Middlesbrough on Tuesday.

The Englishman played 93 games for Celtic before serving less than a year as manager in the 2009/10 season. Now back in the game at The Hawthorns, he will look to lead a campaign for promotion to the English Premier League with the club where he previously spent just under three years before moving north of the border to take over at Parkhead. During his checkup, Mowbray verified his good health: “I’ve been given the all-clear from the doctors after scans earlier this week, and I’m full of energy, vibrancy, and ready to go and do what I feel I do best,” he told the official West Brom website.

“The bottom line for me is that health-wise, I’ve had a difficult year. I can’t sit here and say it was a nice experience, but it was a life-changing one for me. “There have been low and sad moments with the family, but it’s been an experience that I look back on in my life and am thankful to have come through the other side. “I have plenty of energy and am prepared to go. I’ve spent a year laying in a hospital bed, driven back and forth twice a week for treatment. “I am full of energy again. People who know me well say I am back. “Bring it on.”

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