Does it actually work?

Sacked Premier League managers Ten Hag, Nuno Santo and Xisco. We’re approaching the time of year when it becomes socially acceptable for the Premier League’s daftest clubs to consider going early on a managerial change to try and shift the season’s course.

You may think it sounds mad, but the current crop of still-intact Premier League managers have already made it further than the first Sack Race fallers in two of the last five seasons.

And it’s not hard to come up with possibilities for an early victim this time around . Alvaro Arbeloa is already looking out of his depth at Fulham, Oliver Glasner has two points from three games under the ever-twitchy eye of Mr Marinakis at Nottingham Forest and Roberto De Zerbi looks about ready to burst at the sheer unrelenting and unstoppable Spursiness of Spurs .