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He's not the most popular of figures with the Turf Moor fans following his year with the club, now ten years ago, as assistant manager to Chris Waddle. That was an unsuccessful season and he and Waddle quickly disappeared once we'd just about reached safety.
He continued to work with the England set up for a while after leaving the Clarets and was also involved at West Ham, becoming manager with the Hammers when Harry Redknapp moved on. A brain tumour curtailed that role, and almost took his life, but he did take them down and was eventually replaced by Alan Pardew.
It was back to a former club Newcastle next, and again he stepped up following the departure of Graeme Souness. However, he did what most Newcastle managers do, he failed to bring them any success, and like most of his predecessors it cost him his job.
Highly respected in the game, if not by Burnley fans, he was on the short list recently for the jobs at both Leicester and QPR and it was believed he was very much a target again for Milan Mandaric at Leicester.
That won't happen now, he's pitched up at Norwich where Delia said: "Glenn's experience in taking on clubs in difficult situations and improving their fortunes is clearly relevant to us. He carries enormous respect in the game, both from players and other managers. We are absolutely delighted that he has agreed to join us and we are all really looking forward to working with him."
I bet the Burnley fans would have loved this appointment to have been made one week earlier. I'm sure he would have been remembered by the home crowd at Turf Moor as he made his way to the dug out.