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PART ONE: What constitutes success for a Premier League manager?

The Athletic FC Tactics Podcast

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The Italian Job

There's quite a few Championship clubs that have already sacked two managers this season, Alaa Southampton. It used to be about five-ish a year in the kind of late 90s, the start of the 21st century. Now it's up between seven and eight a year and it seems increasingly common actually. I mean what you mentioned just now that a club will set two managers in a season that used to be completely unheard of. Whereas now with Southampton you really weren't that surprised. And there used to be a big difference between England and other countries. We used to look at Italy and think it's mad, I mean you'd have like 15, 16 managers a year getting sacked

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