Recently, Frank de Boer was infamously sacked as manager of Crystal Palace after just four Premier League games. Even the expectant chairmen on Football Manager gives players longer than four matches to reverse a bleak run of form, and there is now a perceived danger that quickfire sackings could become the norm. While trips to Liverpool and Burnley were always going to be difficult prospects, home defeats to a newly-promoted Huddersfield, and a Swansea team that looked doomed for vast swathes of last season, proved unforgivable.
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