The statistics aren’t great for Wigan Athletic: bottom of the Premier League, without a win in six league games, dumped out of the FA Cup by League Two side Swindon, and over four months have passed since they last won at the DW Stadium. Their mini-revival back in November is now a very distance memory. [...]

This weekend pits together two teams in desperate need of a moral boosting win, as bottom club Wigan Athletic host 19th place Blackburn Rovers at the DW Stadium. Both sides have made a shocking start to the season and consequently their respective managers find themselves under immense pressure heading into the crunch clash. On face [...]

Wigan Athletic’s manager Roberto Martinez has become the latest Premier League manager to come under-fire following his side’s defeat at home to Fulham on Saturday. Wigan have now suffered eight consecutive defeats in all competitions as they slump down t0 bottom of the league with just five points from their opening 10 matches. This woeful [...]

The 2011/12 football season is rapidly approaching November and still all 20 Premier League managers remain in their respective jobs. However, this is not to say that it’s all plain sailing as a number of managers are currently under-fire following poor performances in recent weeks. Stan James have therefore opened up an interesting betting market [...]

The LMA Manager of the Year Award is always a popular betting market and one that can spring a few surprises. The prestigious annual award is voted by all of the 92 managers from the Premier League and the Football League, who can pick a winner from any of those four leagues. The winning manager [...]

Mark Hughes is the new 5/4 favourite to join Aston Villa following Roberto Martinez’s decision to honour his contract and stay at Wigan Athletic. The Spaniard was widely expected to join Villa today but after talks with Wigan chairman David Whelan he has shown admirable loyalty – in a sport that has become increasingly money-obsessed [...]

Aston Villa are today due to open talks with Roberto Martinez concerning the vacant managerial position at Villa Park after Wigan Athletic chairman Dave Whelan gave them permission to approach the Spaniard. Martinez’s odds have thus been slashed from 6/1 to just 5/6 by Victor Chandler in the Next Aston Villa Manager Betting, as the [...]

The sacking of Coventry City manager Aidy Boothroyd has brought the total amount of managers sacked or leaving by “mutual consent” so far this season in the Football League to 29, this is on top of  the 4 managers that have been changed in the Premier League (we count Martin O’Neill as quitting). At this [...]

There is no tougher testing ground for managers than in the Barclays Premier League, this season we have already seen several high profile casualties in the managerial sackrace with Roberto De Matteo being the latest when he was relived of his position at West Brom at the beginning of February he was replaced by Roy [...]

There is a full weekend of football ahead of us in the Barclays Premier League and several of the managers will be hoping that luck is on their side for once and that they can kick start their season beginning with claiming all 3 of the available points. The managers that most fear the final [...]