Seven managers have been sacked in the last eight days as club chairmen get tough and make a change.

Some of these sackings seem to be as a direct result of protests from the fans, others are more understandable because the man in the dugout has been getting results that are on the shocking side of rather poor.

But do managers deserve more time?

The most successful boss off perhaps all time, Sir Alex Ferguson, was given a break early in his Manchester United career...and he didn’t fare too badly at the theatre of dreams.