Graham Potter, Brendan Rodgers and the revolving door marked Do One

Another two bite the dust. With Scott Parker, Thomas Tuchel, Bruno Lage, Steven Gerrard, Ralph Hasenhüttl, Frank Lampard, Jesse Marsch, Nathan Jones, Patrick Vieira and Antonio Conte already having been ushered towards various club doors marked Do One, the number of top-flight managers ordered to hand in their stopwatches, whistles and initialled club-issue puffer jackets hit a record 12 for the season on Sunday, when Brendan Rodgers and Graham Potter both found themselves out of jobs.

News of Rodgers’ departure from Leicester City was flashed up on-screen during the early stages of West Ham’s relegation six-pointer against Southampton; arguably the most interesting thing to happen during the game. The club and its manager had parted by “mutual consent”, we were told in news that would normally prompt a lame, monotonously predictable gag about the decision being far more mutual on the club’s part than it was on Brendan’s. However, in this case it may well be an accurate summary of events, as the manager’s enthusiasm for the gig seems to have visibly dwindled since Leicester failed to bring in anyone more glamorous than the big-haired Belgian boulevardier Wout Faes during the summer transfer window.

Indeed, if anything it was a surprise Brendan hadn’t gone a lot sooner, Leicester having got the season off to an inauspicious start by taking just one point from the first 21 available, before rallying briefly only to take just four more from the last 21 available. Now they find themselves managerless, second from bottom of the table and sleepwalking towards relegation, but on the plus side at least Scott Parker, Bruno Lage, Steven Gerrard, Ralph Hasenhüttl, Frank Lampard, Jesse Marsch, Nathan Jones, Patrick Vieira, Antonio