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Total carnage as managers pay the price so early

FLP FOCUS ON THE GLUT OF CHAMPIONSHIP CHANGES
By Chris Dunlavy

If anything epitomises the trigger-happy insanity that has engulfed the Championship this term, it is the fact that, on August 27, Alex Neil was the head coach of Sunderland.
Fifty-seven days and one controversial move to Stoke later, he is the 16th longest-serving manager in the division.
In the space of just two months, a third of all managers in the Championship have cleared their desks, returned the company car and made for the garden centre.
And that figure doesn’t even include Michael O’Neill, the Northern Irishman who...

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