It’s the big one. Not as big as normal, because bafflingly few managers got binned off this season, but still pretty big: here is our final update of the 2023/24 Premier League manager rankings. There was a clear winner for us and it wasn’t him.
Or him. Definitely not him. It’s only been a couple of months since the last update, but you’ll quickly realise it’s been a very, very long eight weeks in Barclays World.
In the unlikely event you don’t want to scoop your eyes out with a rusty spoon after reading all this, you can read all of March’s wrongness here as well if you absolutely must . 24) Paul Heckingbottom, Sheffield United – August-December (24) As late as November we were still willing to place plenty of stock in unfortunate narrow defeats to your Tottenhams, Citys and Uniteds than the thrashings against the Newcastles and Arsenals Of This World, but this was shown to be a wildly optimistic daftness by the unforgivable unpleasantness against Burnley, a result from which there really was no way back for Heckingbottom. Especially given the presence of Chris Wilder, by that point lurking not so much in the shadows as in the full glare of multiple spotlights and a big flashing neon sign saying THIS FELLA WANTS YOUR JOB with all arrows pointing at him.
23) Vincent Kompany, Burnley (23) Went tits up, didn’t it? Didn’t expect it, did we ? Probably, though...
maybe we should have a little bit? Teams that play their way out of the Championship and into the Pr.
