That either Southampton or Watford would have sacked their manager by the end of the weekend is perhaps not a surprise. Before kick-off on Saturday evening both teams remained on single-digit points tallies and occupied the bottom spots of the Premier League.

It was Watford’s Quique Sánchez Flores who paid the price for a 2-1 defeat, less than three months after taking over the head coach’s role from Javi Gracia on September 7. In his ten league games in charge he won one, drew four and lost five.

Now Watford must search for their 12th manager of the decade, although it is understood that the club have lined up a replacement, who could be in place as early as today. Chris Hughton, Sam Allardyce, Paul