Could these 4 Premier League bosses get the axe before Christmas?

Andy Hessenthaler became the first Football League manager to be sacked this season when Leyton Orient dismissed the former Gillingham boss after just five months in charge. Since then, Warren Feeney, Tony Mowbray, Roberto Di Matteo, Francesco Guidolin, Paul Trollope, Micky Mellon and Nigel Pearson have all been sacked by their respective clubs – with many more expected to face the axe over the coming months.

It was Francesco Guidolin who was the first top-flight managerial casualty, just seven games into the new season after a series of bad results.

Swansea, who currently sit 17th in the table, have not won a game since the opening day of the Premier League season and acted swiftly to replace the Italian with ex-USA boss Bob Bradley.

Guidolin’s sacking came on his 61st birthday and just one day earlier than the first Premier League managerial departure of last season, when Brendan Rogers was sacked after 3 years in charge of Liverpool.

Now the first sacking of the season is out of the way, it is more than likely that more will follow and here are five Premier League managers who the guys here at Shoot! think could see their position come under threat by Christmas…