Boss pays the price for alarming slump
Alan Irvine has been sacked by underperforming Sheffield Wednesday.
A 5-3 defeat to Peterborough on Tuesday proved to be the final straw for an Owls board growing increasingly concerned with recent results.
Wednesday were expected to be among the League One frontrunners this season, having slipped out of the Championship in 2009/10.
A bright start bode well, with the club reaching the third tier summit on the back of a four-match unbeaten opening.
However, a slump in form soon saw them slip off the pace, raising initial concerns.
Wobble
A revival in fortune helped to carry the club back into the promotion pack, but the wheels have fallen off spectacularly of late.
The Owls have gone six games without a win and now find themselves in mid-table, eight points adrift of the play-off places.
Irvine has paid the price for that wobble, with his Hillsborough tenure brought to an abrupt end after 13 months.
The Scot was appointed in January 2010 but was unable to prevent Wednesday from succumbing to the drop.
Having failed to stop the rot, the former Preston boss leaves after 59 games in charge, of which he won just 24.
A 5-3 defeat to Peterborough on Tuesday proved to be the final straw for an Owls board growing increasingly concerned with recent results.
Wednesday were expected to be among the League One frontrunners this season, having slipped out of the Championship in 2009/10.
A bright start bode well, with the club reaching the third tier summit on the back of a four-match unbeaten opening.
However, a slump in form soon saw them slip off the pace, raising initial concerns.
Wobble
A revival in fortune helped to carry the club back into the promotion pack, but the wheels have fallen off spectacularly of late.
The Owls have gone six games without a win and now find themselves in mid-table, eight points adrift of the play-off places.
Irvine has paid the price for that wobble, with his Hillsborough tenure brought to an abrupt end after 13 months.
The Scot was appointed in January 2010 but was unable to prevent Wednesday from succumbing to the drop.
Having failed to stop the rot, the former Preston boss leaves after 59 games in charge, of which he won just 24.
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