Chelsea v Brighton, Leeds v Brentford, Sunderland v Fulham: Premier League – live

Premier League updates from the 2pm (BST) kick-offsLive scoreboard | Mail John and follow us on BlueSkyOn a similar tip, Andrew Beesley has run the numbers.Vítor Pereira, Graham Potter and Thomas Frank became managers of Wolves, West Ham and Tottenham respectively in 2025, started last season in those roles and yet were removed by mid-February of this year at the latest. Across the preceding decade, 25 men who started a season as a new manager, appointed in that year, did not see out the season in question.It turns out it is true. Managers used to be ashen-faced men with nicotine-grey hair dressed in the sports jackets of grim experience. They spoke with a rasping melancholy of the depths of human fallibility and of fates that were not to be trusted. Now they’re trim, sprightly figures in T-shirts, convinced that analytics can explain the world. Continue reading...