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NEW BOSS? HE WON,T LAST 10 MINUTES

CHRIS DUNLAVY looks at the managers who were out the door before they’d had a chance to meet their new players and unpack their hair dryers...

oCTOBER is to managers what December is to turkeys – a gruesome period of bloodshed and slaughter. And this year’s has been particularly grim, bringing to an end three disastrously short-lived tenures.
In March 2011, Alan Knill quit a Bury team set for promotion from League Two in favour of a relegation scrap with Championship Scunthorpe. Eighteen months on, the pair sit side-by-side at the foot of League One and Knill is on th...

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