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26 years since Fergie took-over, managerial changes ranked

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Bit of a distraction from the East Midland's el clasico (wut?)... and hit that boring time of day at work

26 years ago yesterday, on Nov 6th 1986, Fergie took-over at ManUtd

The Daily Mirror has captured a snapshot of the Division 1 table that day and numbered the managerial changes at those clubs since that date.

And if their figures are right (they have a question mark besides our name for some unexplained reason) we have had more changes (18) than anyone else in the top flight at the time. Obviously its not too surprising, especially in recent years.

Although, not counting caretakers, we've had 8 changes in the past few years alone so over a longer period of time we're not as unstable as it first might look.

relative stability is not everything though, Luton & Charlton's performance shows that... and West Ham haven't won anything during that time, whilst we have.

Also note we were above ManUtd, ManCity & Chelsea

The First Division on November 6, 1986

Club; Played; Points; manager; (number of managers since)

Nottm Forest 13 26 Brian Clough (12)

Arsenal 13 24 George Graham (2)

Liverpool 13 23 Kenny Dalglish (7)

West Ham 13 22 John Lyall (9)

Norwich 13 22 Ken Brown (14)

Everton 13 21 Howard Kendall (5)

Luton 13 20 David Pleat (6)

Coventry 13 20 Don Mackay (17)

Tottenham 13 19 Peter Shreeves (15)

Wimbledon 13 19 Dave Bassett (13)

Sheff Weds 13 18 Howard Wilkinson (16)

Southampton 13 17 Chris Nicholl (17)

QPR 13 17 Jim Smith (17)

Charlton 13 17 Lennie Lawrence (7)

Oxford U 13 17 Maurice Evans (17)

Aston Villa 13 16 Billy McNeill (11)

Watford 13 15 Graham Taylor (14)

Leicester C 13 15 Gordon Milne(18)?

Man Utd 13 13 Alex Ferguson (0)

Chelsea 13 13 John Hollins (14)

Man City 13 9 Jimmy Frizzell (13)

Newcastle 13 9 Willie McFaul (14)

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Nah, Kelly definitley counts.

^

From memory

Nigel Pearson

Sven goran Eriksson

Paulo sousa

Nigel pearson

Iain Holloway

Martin Allen

Big nige Worthington

Micko Adams

Dave Bassett

Peter tailor

Martin o neilson

Mark McGhee

Brian little

David pleat

Is the omission of Craig Levein intentional?

I try to forget that dark period, too.

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It's because we keep hiring idiots

Yeah, Sven was a big mistake.

In that table we're above Man Utd, Chelsea and Man City. :o

I knew Man City only got to the top recently, but I thought Man Utd and Chelsea were near the top since the 70s (behind Liverpool who won everything).

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Yeah, Sven was a big mistake.

In that table we're above Man Utd, Chelsea and Man City. :o

I knew Man City only got to the top recently, but I thought Man Utd and Chelsea were near the top since the 70s (behind Liverpool who won everything).

That table is only after 13 games, though Chelsea spent a lot of the 80s in the 2nd Division.

Man Utd spent a season there in the 70s too. It's no surprise they replaced their manager with Fergie with them 4th bottom.

I've just realised why that question mark is there, I don't think Gordon Milne was our manager then: http://www.foxestalk.co.uk/forums/page/managers.php

So it's actually 17.

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To be fair I thought we always has a good record with our managerial appointments (on paper) up until the post-Peter Taylor panic. Little, McGhee, O'Neill and even Taylor were all exciting, up-and-coming talents at the time they joined. Sadly we changed all that with Harry Bassett, and it's been a mess ever since.

Pearson is a return to form; let's hope we stick with him this time.

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