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Nottingham Forest have appointed former England boss Steve McClaren as their new manager on a three-year contract.
The 50-year-old replaces Billy Davies, who was sacked by the Championship club on Sunday.
McClaren's last club job in England was with Middlesbrough, while he has also had spells in charge of Dutch side FC Twente and Wolfsburg in Germany.
McClaren's appointment comes after Davies paid the price for the club's failure in the Championship play-offs for the second season in a row.
The role at Forest offers McClaren the chance to re-establish himself in English football after a spell working overseas in Dutch and German football.McClaren's remarkable success with Twente - winning the club's first domestic league title - in the Netherlands helped to rehabilitate a reputation badly undermined by his unsuccessful 16-month spell as England boss.
England failed to reach the 2008 European Championship after a mediocre qualifying campaign concluded with a disastrous 3-2 defeat by Croatia at Wembley.
McClaren, a former Hull, Bristol City and Oxford United midfielder, began his coaching career with Derby before moving on to work under Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United.
His success at Old Trafford, including the 1999 Treble-winning season, led to him taking his first managerial position with Middlesbrough in 2001.
McClaren won the Carling Cup in 2004 to earn Boro their first major trophy and also led the Teesiders to the Uefa Cup final in 2006 before replacing Sven-Goran Eriksson as England boss.
The Yorkshireman had recently been linked with vacancies at Aston Villa and Fulham, while Twente - who are in next season's Champions League - were interested in bringing him back to the Netherlands, despite his struggles with Wolfsburg.
Forest were relegated from the top flight in 1999 and have been unable to claw their way back, with their spell in the Football League including three seasons in League One from 2005 to 2008.