Sometimes you see a managerial appointment and just know that it's all going to end in disaster. Sometimes the disaster takes you by surprise, but looking back you realise that it was never going to work.
This list of some of the worst managers to take charge of top-flight clubs in England features both of those kinds of appointments, as we've had a look bad at some of the characters who never should have been given the reins.
Here are 15 premier league managers who never should have been Premier League managers.
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Steve Kean
Currently the manager of Brunei DPMM in the S.League in Singapore, Steve Kean has found his level. A hapless tactician, he represents a truly dark time for Blackburn that the club are yet to recover from. It wasn't all his fault, of course, but he certainly didn't help as he looked more and more out of his depth each week.
Juande Ramos
True story: I once bumped into Jamie O'Hara and Sean Davis when the two played for Spurs, and I asked them "What's Juande Ramos like?" as the press had been pumping out stories about him refusing to learn English.
O'Hara took one look at David, turned back to me, and said: "He's shit."
Jamie wasn't wrong. He did win a Carling Cup with Spurs, but nobody is sure how.
Tony Adams
It was tough to watch Tony Adams attempt to save Portsmouth from inevitable financial ruin. He last managed Gabala in the Azerbaijan Premier League in 2011.
Terry Connor
Wolves sacked Mick McCarthy and realised they never thought past that point, so they stuck poor Terry in a bigger coat and asked him to do interviews for the BBC. Awful decision. He is now reunited with Mick at Ipswich.
Sven-Göran Eriksson
Perhaps one of the biggest chancers of all time, Man City's new cash rich owners thought he would be the man to guide the club to glory after he wasted a genuinely talented England player pool by forcing Paul Scholes out of the team and insisting Gerrard and Lampard could work as a midfield two. He enjoyed success on the continent but was hopeless at City, and it's been just weird since then.
Look at this:
Phil Brown
Did so well to get Hull promoted to the Premier League, then genuinely believed he was God's gift to football management. That ear-piece alone typified the man who would later go on to audaciously drape a pink cardigan over his shoulders on 'Goals On Sunday'.
Clown.
Les Reed
Currently doing a very good job as Southampton's head of football development, the decision Charlton made to make him manager in 2006 was a very bad one. Totally out of his depth, better off behind the scenes.
Jaques Santini
13 games in charge of Spurs and he walked. Santini said he quit partly because he felt agreements with the club were broken, but he admitted he "dug his own grave" by agreeing to join the club before the end of Euro 2004.
Didn't even want to be a Premier League manager.
Paul Sturrock
Proud owner of the worst facial hair in football management, Sturrock's Southampton side were absolutely awful to watch.
Felix Magath
An absolute madman who took pleasure in the pain he caused his players by running them into the ground, he was supposed to turn Fulham around and keep them up, but they never recovered after he took them down.
Those glasses, however, were iconic.
Paul Ince
One GIF sums up his time in charge of Blackburn:
Sammy Lee
Another member of the ridiculous headset club, Sammy was born to be an assistant manager. And an assistant manager of Liverpool at that.
"Little Sam" took charge of Bolton when they really should have looked for a manager instead.
Rene Muelensteen
Like Lee above, Rene is regarded as an excellent coach, but he never should have taken the job at Fulham when it was clear they wanted someone else. At least he got out while he could.
Paolo Di Canio
Di Canio's time in charge of Sunderland was ridiculously entertaining, but there is no way someone so hot-headed should have been in the pressure cooker that is Premier League management.
A scary man when he's not happy.
John Carver
Easily the best manager in the World if you listen to John Carver, he is on this list for his insistance that he deserved the full-time job at Newcastle having been made interim boss following the departure of Alan Pardew. His post match press conferences were delusional, and the job went to Steve McClaren (who isn't doing a fantastic job himself it must be said).
