17 bosses in under 11 years: The club where management has a sting in the tail

Slaven Bilic’s sacking after less than six months in charge of Watford is the latest in a long line of changes under the ownership of Gino Pozzo and his family.

Here, the PA news agency looks at the club’s turbulent managerial history since they entered the boardroom.

Twenty-six games is actually one of the longer reigns in recent Hornets history, with Bilic outlasting each of the previous three managers despite lasting only from September to March.

His immediate predecessor Rob Edwards was sacked after 11 games and Claudio Ranieri 14, with Roy Hodgson succeeding the Italian to see out the last 18 games of last season on a short-term contract.

Bilic won 10 Championship games, with seven draws and eight losses meaning a record of 37 points from a possible 75.

They scored 30 goals, conceding 27 in the league and another two in an FA Cup first-round exit to Reading, and have won only one of their last eight games.

Starting with Gianfranco Zola shortly after their July 2012 takeover, Pozzo and family – along with chairman Scott Duxbury – have made 17 permanent managerial appointments in less than 11 years.

That included three in 37 days in one madcap spell shortly after Gino Pozzo took sole charge in 2014.

That was admittedly influenced by Oscar Garcia standing down due to ill health after just four games, though the decision to appoint Billy McKinlay on a permanent basis and sack him two games – and four points – later was Pozzo’s alone.

No manager in their time in charge has matched Zola’s 75 games, with Javi Gracia the only other man to break through the half-century mark in a single spell – Quique Sanchez Flores was appointed twice, serving first for 44 games and then 12.

McKinlay aside, only Slavisa Jokanovic and Xisco