For Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, the writing had been on the wall for some time. At one point he was Manchester United's saviour - the man who stabilised a club in freefall.
Eventually his reign grew stale as a damning set of results hinted he was not the man to bring the glory days back to Old Trafford.
Finally sacked after growing calls from supporters to act in the wake of their humiliating 4-1 loss at Watford, Solskjaer's time is finally up and will look back on several painful results that hammered the nails in his coffin, one by one.