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A DEVIL OF A JOB

CALLUM HUMPHREY REFLECTS ON THE SHORT TIME GIVEN TO MODERN DAY MANAGERS – AND ONE POTENTIAL UPSIDE...

SHAKING hands with the devil. That’s what Roy Keane likened working for Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis to.
First it was Nuno Espirito Santo, then it was Ange Postecoglou. Sean Dyche may follow. Marinakis doesn’t mess around.
It took him just 39 days to dispense of Ange, the crowd-dividing Australian. That came after he fired Nuno, who took the kamikaze decision to publicly criticise Marinakis days before the season started.
Replacing Nuno with Post...

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