Foxes Managerial Merry-Go-Round Resumes

Earlier this week, Sven-Goran Eriksson was again out of a job, this time at Leicester City.

The Swede, who took over in October 2010, oversaw a 3-0 home defeat to struggling Millwall in the nPower Championship on Saturday, which was to be his final game in charge for the Foxes.

"It was always my aim to lead the club into the Premier League.
"I am very sorry I won't be able to do that. Being the manager of Leicester was an absolute pleasure."

The east Midlands club were favourites to win the league this season, after a £15 million war chest was handed to the former England chief, but Eriksson has had a steady start to the new season, as the club currently lie in 14th place, but the board felt this was not good enough after signing the likes of Matt Mills (£5m), Kasper Schmeichel (undisclosed) and Gelson Fernandes.

Eriksson and Leicester City have both struggled for stability respectively in recent seasons.

Since departing the England national role in 2006, Sven has been in charge of four teams in five years, not forgetting his role as Director of Football at Notts County in League 1. From Manchester City to Mexico, to the Ivory Coast in the last World Cup and then finding himself in the east Midlands.

Meanwhile, Leicester City have chopped and changed since Martin O' Neill left the club back in 2000. No more than 11 managers have come and gone.

The abysmal era of Peter Taylor took over the following season. Micky Adams briefly enjoyed a successful spell between 2002 and 2004 promoting the Foxes in the old Division 1, before admitting he has took the club "as far as he can go", just after relegation in their solitary season back in the Premier League.

Scotsman Craig Levein left Hearts in the SPL in 2004 to join Leicester, and in three seasons, City installed four more managers with Rob Kelly, Martin Allen, Gary Megson and Ian Holloway who all failed to stop the rot at the King Power Stadium, then known as the Walkers Stadium.

Eventually, Leicester City were relegated under the stewardship of Holloway. Despite joining an already sinking ship, Holloway was relieved of his duties under owner Milan Mandaric.

Nigel Pearson's availability was seized upon by Mandaric, and it had seemed the good times had come back round. Leicester bounced back into the Coca-Cola Championship within the first time of asking, and Pearson and the Foxes continued their good form into the new campaign. They reached the play-offs but fell to runners up Cardiff City in Wales.

Pearson's departure came as a huge shock to many Leicester fans. The Sheffield Wednesday and Middlesbrough legend left the club after it had seemed former Swansea manager Paulo Sousa had held talks with Mandaric during the play-off semi final defeat to which Pearson left the club to go on to pastures new.

Sousa installed and City suffered a woeful start into the new season. The 6-1 away hammering to bottom of the league Portsmouth was enough for the board and fans as the Portuguese's contract was cut short.

New owners had took over from Mandaric, and Eriksson was in place to steer the City ship away from the dark depths of the relegation zone.

Successful he was. The club just missed out on the play-offs this time around. The loan signing of Yakubu signalled the saucy Swede's intentions of taking the club back in to the promised land.

A year on from his appointment, both parties are looking elsewhere.

Football is a cruel game. In a results-based industry, Sven failed to produce this term. Many believe he hadn't had long enough, many felt he was clueless with his formations and the starting line up. Whichever way you look at it now, a new era dawns on Leicester City yet again.