Gary O’Neill was pushed hard by Wolves after a humiliating defeat to Everton, with Craig Dawson stepping into the role of Tim Sherwood and Tyrone Mings.
These players scored an own goal in their final game before leaving the job. If O’Neill is eventually eliminated, Dawson will become the first man to score two own goals before being sacked.
Nigel Martyn (Leeds United 0-4 Manchester United, September 1996)
The game was perhaps more memorable for Eric Cantona’s missed penalty in the first half and then his final appearance at Elland Road in second-half stoppage time with his arms raised in front of the home fans. Celebrating a relatively meaningless goal in front of Howard Wilkinson for the last time in charge of Leeds United.
But there was no conspiracy, it was just that Martin was inadvertently kicked in the head by Ian Harte as he tried to block Ronny Johnson’s shot in the second minute.
Tim Sherwood (Blackburn 0-1 Stockport, October 1996)
Even more shocking was Blackburn captain Sherwood nodding in Tim Flowers’ throw-in at the front post under relatively little pressure before being substituted before the end of the game.
Ray Harford handed in his resignation three days after a Carabao Cup defeat to third-tier opponents as the side, wearing a Romanian-style third kit, reached the semi-finals before being stopped by Middlesbrough.
Des Little (Liverpool 4-2 Nottingham Forest, December 1996)
In a season marked by perceived betrayals, Little may have committed the greatest betrayal of all. Nottingham Forest had gone 15 games without a win but there were hopes high when Kevin Campbell pulled a goal back at Anfield to make it 2-1 at half-time against Liverpool.
Forest had just come off a strong start to the second half from the home side but Little curled a very strange header into the top corner of the goal line from Jason McAteer’s cross.
Frank Clark resigned days later, without personally naming Lytle in his statement.
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Jon Newsome (Manchester United 6-1 Sheffield Wednesday, November 1997)
There are worse ways to bury such a betrayal. In United’s away win at Old Trafford, Newsome kept bouncing and rebounding in the penalty area before the ball eventually bounced off him and past Kevin Pressman, finishing off David Pooley The last permanent position of Te’s coaching career.
Jussi Jaaskelainen (Chelsea 2-2 Bolton Wanderers, April 2007)
Only Sam Allardyce can resign from the Premier League after leading the defending champions to a 2-2 draw away from home, which essentially eliminated them from the title race.
Bolton went ahead, fell behind and then equalized, Chelsea’s second goal deflecting off the crossbar and then Jaaskelainen’s Salomon Kalaw heading in. Inevitably, only Kevin Nolan has played more games under Allardyce than the Finnish goalkeeper, who linked up with him again at West Ham United, so there are no hard feelings.
Anton Ferdinand (QPR 1-3 Southampton, November 2012)
It’s called “El Sackico” for good reason. Mark Hughes left QPR immediately after the incident, while Nigel Adkins only lasted a few more months before being replaced by Mauricio Pochettino.
But it was the final straw for Rangers, with Ferdinand’s late own-goal the rotten cherry on an inedible cake.
Titus Bramble (Sunderland 0-1 Manchester United, March 2013)
With his four own goals in the Premier League, a top-flight career with Ipswich, Newcastle, Wigan and Sunderland, and the inherent ability to be Titus Bramble, maybe Titus Bramble It was inevitable that one of the final games would be marked by one of Bull’s managers sticking the ball past his own goalkeeper.
Even if Bramble had just randomly wandered into the Dutchman’s corridors of uncertainty towards the end of Martin O’Neill’s tenure, the centre-back wouldn’t have been too much at fault for suffering a knee injury from Robin van Persie’s shot.
Steve Taylor (Newcastle 1-3 Bournemouth, March 2016)
Around 90 minutes before kick-off at St James’ Park, Newcastle released a statement purporting to be from the players, with recent media reports saying they were “surprised” McLaren had not been sacked yet, but this was false, adding Said the head coach had their “full respect”.
So it didn’t look good when Taylor got a crucial touch from Josh King’s low ball just half an hour after kick-off. McClaren said only four players, not including centre-backs, showed the necessary “character” in a heavy defeat that saw him depart five days later.
Michael Keane (Norwich 2-1 Everton, January 2022)
What a pretty embarrassing failure. Keane’s lazily waving foot in front of Josh Sargent’s cross was certainly a good start, but it was something to look forward to.
Rafael BenÃtez received that dreaded vote of confidence last month, but it has proven to be a messy failure that cannot be ignored.
Juraj Kucka (Watford 0-3 Norwich City, January 2022)
The Canaries were then sent to a gold mine at Watford, where their brief dalliance with Claudio Ranieri ended in a crushing defeat that saw Emmanuel Denis sent off and Kuka in Two minutes after coming on as a substitute, he dragged the ball past Daniel Bachmann from a low cross.
Chris Mepham (Liverpool 9-0 Bournemouth, August 2022)
“It’s still 0-0, lads,” Scott Parker told his players at half-time after witnessing five different Liverpool players come on against struggling Bournemouth. Keep it tight, get some respect back in the second half and move on.
Or have your goalkeeper scramble from Trent Alexander-Arnold’s cross within a minute of the restart, resulting in one of the Premier League’s heaviest defeats ever. No wonder Parker basically resigned.
Tyrone Mings (Fulham 3-0 Aston Villa, October 2022)
Narrative-wise, this is going to take a bit of a hit. Mings was stripped of the Villa captaincy this summer by Steven Gerrard, who believed “not having the responsibility of captaincy will allow Tyrone to focus more on his own game, which will only benefit him and the team” .
Mings was subsequently dropped for the season opener but was firmly back in the side when a truly formidable Villa visited Fulham. The defender waited until at least the 83rd minute before exacting his ultimate revenge, sending a dangerous cross into his own net.
Gerrard describes himself as a “fighter” who “never, ever gives up on anything, whether it’s football or life”. and then got fired before having to endure the most embarrassing bus ride home.
Jan Bednarek (Southampton 1-2 Wolves, February 2023)
Let him never be forgiven. Does he realize what he has taken from us? Does he care? Does Nathan Jones still have no animosity towards Welsh women?
Southampton went a man ahead after Wolves’ Mario Lemina was sent off, but Bednarek suddenly failed to adjust his feet, resulting in a goal-line clearance that conceded the final 13 of the sentence. letters. That sparked an unlikely comeback, with Joao Gomez coming on in the 87th minute.
Jones said Lemina’s red card “was bad for us because it gave them a free hit and put more pressure on us”.
Daniel Iverson (Crystal Palace 2-1 Leicester City, April 2023)
Bizarrely, Leicester City waited a long time to tell Brendan Rodgers that things were not progressing for the 2022/23 season. Steve Cooper wouldn’t mind taking 28 games to prove himself or Dean Smith being named as his replacement to make his job look better.
Just before Roy Hodgson scored the winner in stoppage time, Iverson’s defender foolishly kicked Eberechi Eze’s free kick off the line and the ball hit the crossbar, Roy Hodgson’s The back foolishly pushed the ball over the line to cap off a comeback for the Foxes, who finally felt compelled to make a move.
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