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Supposed to be a topical top 10, this, but sometimes it’s hard to find anything going on in the football news cycle to use as a hook. So for no real reason, here’s a list of 10 managers who lost their jobs despite winning a trophy just before it happened. Don’t be looking for deeper meaning here.

There isn’t any. And there definitely isn’t a clue in one of these people being a Dutch former Ajax manager who lost his job at Manchester United despite a fluky run to FA Cup success . Antonio Conte, Chelsea Perhaps the most notable recent example from Our League – the one that matters – because Conte was by any sane measure enormously successful at Chelsea yet so complete was the breakdown of the relationship that there really was nothing to be done to salvage it.



Won the title in imperious fashion in his very first season before the recriminations and infighting kicked in. Would he be so angry all the time if he just acknowledged his baldness? Not for us to say. But he is an angry man, and in his second season it all went wrong.

Chelsea’s league form collapsed in what we now see in hindsight as the start of the Guardiola era of utter dominance and they finished only fifth, 30 points off the absurd pace set by City. But through the squabbling and unpleasantness, Conte did still manage to steer his side to the FA Cup before huffing off into the sunset. Louis van Gaal, Manchester United The most obvious warning from history for Erik Ten Hag comes from the tale of a fo.

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