Football fans may be enjoying the latest round of Premier League fixtures but it’s all going a bit wrong for the UK Government at westminster.
Prime Minister Liz Truss has announced she will resign from the top job at 10 Downing Street after just 44 days in the role, making her the shortest PM in history who didn’t die in office. When the member for for South West Norfolk took over on September 6 the top flight season in English football had just completed its sixth round of fixtures for the 2022/23 season with results such as Man Utd handing Arsenal their only defeat of the campaign so far and Man City being held to a 1-1 draw by Aston Villa.
While it is obviously an incredibly short time to hold office, it would also be considered drastically minimal by the standards of top flight football managers, jobs that are quite often revolving doors with many clubs happy to pull the trigger on their head coaches without a second thought in the modern game. Using figures gathered by Four Four Two in 2021, we’ve taken a look at the shortest serving managers in the history of the Premier League and how much longer they lasted in their respective jobs than Truss did in Number 10.
Here are the ten shortest serving managers, in order from longest to shortest, in Premier League history:
5. Terry Connor (Wolves - 91 days)
Wolves are currently looking for a new head coach and will hope they make a stronger appointment than when Connor replaced Mick McCarthy to disastrous results | Getty Images
6. Quique Sanchez Flores (85 days)
Ahh the Watford head coach position, the only job in the country that still seems to be more of a rotating door than the leader of the Conservative party... | Getty Images
7. Bob Bradley (Swansea City - 84 days)
The American became something of a joke amongst Premier League fans but his tenure was anything but funny for supporters of the Welsh side | Getty Images
8. Frank de Boer (Crystal Palace - 77 days)
The Dutch playing legend probably thought the 85 days he spent in charge of Inter Milan would have been the shortest stint he had in a job. He would have been wrong. | Getty Images