There was a moment on Thursday afternoon when Alan Curtis, the old firefighter of Swansea City, took his seat at a press conference and said: 'Groundhog day.'
Here he goes again, back into the seat for what he guessed was his 'fourth or fifth' stint at the wheel. It used to be the case that he would get the caretaker gig when a successful Swansea manager had been poached, but 'the last few years it has been more because of sackings', he said.
That is a sign of the times, a measure of how a club that was once so stable is now so turbulent.