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Calderwood was appointed as manager by Nottingham Forest in May 2006.[3][7] Calderwood enjoyed an unbeaten league start to his Forest campaign and won the managerial monthly award for August 2006.[citation needed] Forest led League One by seven points in late November 2006. This lead was squandered, and the club finished in fourth place, 11 points behind leaders Scunthorpe United. Forest lost 5?4 on aggregate to Yeovil Town in the promotion playoffs.[3][8]

In the 2007-08 campaign, Forest failed to win any of their first six competitive games of the season. Forest went on a good run of form after this, losing just once in fifteen games. Calderwood won a manager of the month award during this run, but he decided to sell the award trophy on eBay to raise funds for presents to hospital patients in Nottingham.[9] The auction was said to have raised around ?2,000.[9]

After this, there was a spell of inconsistent results, particularly away from home, which led to Forest dropping into the promotion play-off zone. Forest were nine points short of the automatic promotion places with just four games remaining, which led Calderwood to admit that automatic promotion was unlikely.[10] Forest won six out of their last seven games, which was enough to earn a second place finish and automatic promotion to the Football League Championship.[3]

Calderwood was sacked by Forest in December 2008, as the club had secured just four wins by Christmas.[3][11]

Newcastle United[edit source]

Calderwood was appointed first team coach at Newcastle United on 26 January 2009.[12] Newcastle were relegated from the Premier League at the end of the season.[13] Calderwood then worked as an assistant manager to Chris Hughton as Newcastle gained promotion back to the Premier League at the first attempt by winning the 2009?10 Football League Championship.

Hibernian[edit source]

On 18 October 2010, Calderwood left Newcastle to become manager of Edinburgh side Hibernian.[14] After three losses in his first three matches in charge, including an Edinburgh derby defeat by rivals Hearts, Calderwood's first win as Hibs boss came in a shock 3?0 win against Rangers at Ibrox.[15] Despite this surprise victory, Calderwood suffered criticism after Hibs went on a poor run of results, winning just two of his first fourteen matches as manager.[16] This prompted speculation that he had offered to resign, which was denied.[16] A five match winning run lifted Hibs up into eighth place in the SPL[17] and earned Calderwood the SPL monthly award for February 2011.[18] Hibs finished the 2010?11 season in tenth place.[19]

In June 2011, Birmingham City and Nottingham Forest both approached Hibs with a view to appointing Calderwood as their assistant manager.[19][20][21] Calderwood was sacked by Hibs on 6 November 2011, having won just 12 games out of 49.[22]

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