Sacking managers in the Premier League is commonplace.
There have been 10 dispatched this season already — including two at Southampton — and if we have another between now and end of the campaign, it will amount to a record in the competition’s 32-year history.
History tells us it doesn’t always work. In fact, of the 39 sackings made from March onwards in Premier League history, only seven have actually prompted improvement in league position.
So as the Premier League season prepares to restart after the international break and with the bottom nine clubs separated by just four points, which of the nine trigger-happy chairmen have got the biggest bounce from their decision to chase a manager out of the door?