Glenn Tamplin hired and fired his new Billericay Town manager within hours after finding out he had ‘slagged off’ the National League South side.

The Essex billionaire put the club up for sale last Monday, after allegations he had snorted cocaine in the changing room toilets before a home game against Woking.

1 Tamplin has never been one to shy away from controversy

After claiming he had been pushed ‘too far’, police took no further action and he performed a U-turn on Sunday night.

However, according to the Daily Mirror the drama continued and, after introducing his players to their new manager, he quickly sacked him.

Steve Watts was working as Maidstone United caretaker manager when he agreed to help out Tamplin’s side and was added to the Billericay Town WhatsApp group.

However, just hours later Watts was removed from the group before Tamplin posted the following message: “I’ve had to sack him bcoz he was slagging us off last year.”

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Apart from the result, all the talk on social media is about the ’Tamplin shuffle’

Here it is in all its glory,

Say what you like about our owner but this shows what it means to him and how grateful he is for the fans support 💙@glenntamplin 💙👏🏻👏🏻🕺🕺#tamplinshuffle pic.twitter.com/lD98eQI10r — Billericay Town FC (@BTFC) August 13, 2018

One shocked player told the paper: “One minute we were all saying how much we were looking forward to working with the guy, the next he was gone.

“I’ve never seen anything like it. Apparently when he was in charge of Margate last season he had a few digs at Glenn and it’s all come out. Hopefully something gets sorted soon.”

Popular boss Harry Wheeler was sacked in August (a decision Tamplin has since admitted was a mistake) and, in a stunning turn of events, took the Maidstone United job vacated by Watts.