👋 The quickest ever early season PL sackings | OneFootball

After just four games, which included one win and defeats to Manchester City, Arsenal and Liverpool, Scott Parker has become the first managerial casualty of the Premier League season.

Parker is just the sixth coach to lose his job this early in a Premier League game but two have been sent packing even earlier in a new campaign …

Four games — Peter Reid (Man City)

In the second ever Premier League season, just one point and one goal from four games saw Peter Reid depart Maine Road before the end of August.

It was some fall from grace having finished ninth the previous season but City did survive, with Brian Horton coming in and leading the club to a 16th-place finish.

Four games — Frank de Boer (Crystal Palace)

De Boer arrived in England with a big reputation as a former Ajax manager. He ambitiously set out to turn Palace from one of the league’s most defensive teams to a side that kept the ball.

It didn’t work. Four games, four defeats, zero goals. He was fired with the worst record in Premier League history.

Four games — Javi Gracia (Watford)

Anyone who has paid close attention to Watford’s recent Premier League endeavours won’t be surprised to see one of their ex-managers feature here.

The Hornets had finished midtable and reached the FA Cup final in 2018/19 but, bottom with one point four games into the following season, that was it for Gracia.

Two games — Kenny Dalglish (Newcastle United)

It took just two games, and two draws at that, for Newcastle to cut ties with Kenny Dalglish back in 1998.

They had finished 13th the previous season, having become a side used to challenging for things and playing in Europe, and enough was clearly enough for then-chairman Freddy Shepherd.

Two games — Paul Sturrock (Southampton)

Paul Sturrock took over at Southampton late in the 2002/03 season and things started well but he was under pressure by the end of the campaign, ending with a five-match winless run that included a defeat to fierce rivals Portsmouth.

Just two games into the following season and Sturrrock was gone, even though the Saints had beaten Blackburn. Southampton won just five of the 36 remaining games after sacking Sturrock and were relegated, while he was leading Sheffield Wednesday to promotion to the Championship.