From what I was told about Nolan, he should be bottom of a long list of managers never to return. The disastrous season following the play off loss was the summer where we had no rain for months. He would constantly call off training due to heat or the pitch was too hard.
We were battered at the start of that season as we had the fitness levels of a pub team.
I wasn’t against Nolan at the time but his football was dire, absolutely dire.