MIDDLESBROUGH legend Tony Mowbray has been named the new manager at the Riverside Stadium and will be unveiled at a press conference at 3.30pm today.

After two and a half days of frantic negotiations, Mowbray has reached agreement with his former club Celtic over the terms of his gardening leave payments he is due to receive until April.

Mowbray was always chairman Steve Gibson's number one choice to succeed Gordon Strachan, knowing that he was the majority of the club's fans' choice to be installed.

Gibson had also spoken to Paul Ince, but it is Mowbray who will be in charge when the Championship's bottom club, Bristol City, travel to Teesside on Saturday.

Mowbray was the captain during Boro's liquidation in 1986 and he led them to two promotions before being sold to Celtic in 1991.