Swans boss Francesco Guidolin is the new favourite in the Premier
League sack race.
To claim that this a relegation six pointer before the blackberries have ripened is premature in the extreme but the outcome of today's game could play a major part in deciding the Premier
League sack race; or more precisely who the first manager to leave his post will be.
Not exact matches
As the Premier
League season gets going, CaughtOffside looks at how things are shaping up in the managerial
sack race, with these seven Premier
League bosses already looking like fighting for their futures after bad starts to the season...
The only downside, of course, is that the Premier
League title
race is now over before the advent calendars have come out, meaning the focus now moves on to the rather tedious
race for fourth, which only Arsenal care about, and the
race not to be
sacked, which Arsene Wenger is not involved in anyway.
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Looking ahead to the «
sack race» among Premier
League managers (and mentioning Wenger in the process), one writer pointed out that it can seem that the season of a football club is decided in the first few games.