Managing a football club is a tough job. Managing a team in the Premier League is even harder and there have been many coaches who have fallen flat on their face when they’ve been handed the reins.

It’s usually those managers who have moved to England from other countries without having had the experience of the Premier League, or those who have stepped up from being number two, who have had the hardest time.

Former players trying their first hand at management have also come a cropper as they fail to translate their skills from their playing days into management,

So press the next page as we go through the first four names on our list of the worst managers of the Premier League era.