1.   Other industries have had to sack managers to reduce administrative costs.

2.   Since then while Oxford have continued to struggle Sunderland have sacked their manager and put together a winning streak which has brought the fans back.

3.   It is always a dodgy business, sacking a manager or calling for his sacking.

4.   So what of Michael Fallon, anxiously defending a narrow Tory majority in Darlington where the football team has sacked the manager and is about to be relegated.

5.   CHELSEA yesterday sacked manager Ian Porterfield and appointed former Southend boss Dave Webb to take charge at Stamford Bridge for the rest of the season.

6.   And now Cambridge United, who recently sacked controversial manager John Beck, have made the first move.

7.   A desperate Wales, lying at the bottom of its European Championship qualifying group, sacked team manager Mike Smith Wednesday.

8.   Huddersfield sacked manager Lou Macari on Friday after the second division club failed to win promotion.