It had been hoped that members of the Sky Blue Trust would have been invited to this announcement after all the work they did in helping the club to inform them of the views of supporters, but this has not happened.
As first revealed on this site, Adams has been at matches at Highfield Road on a number of occasions this season and watched 75 minutes of Peter Reid's last game in charge,joined City as a player in 1985 from Gillingham for £75,000, scoring ten goals before he joined Leeds in 1987.
As a manager, Adams has walked out of Brentford,Swansea,Brighton and Leicester despite varying spells of success and was sacked as Fulham boss to make way for Kevin Keegan.
He will become City's fourth manager in just over a year.