The Christmas and New Year have been hard to some of the Premier League managers; Alan Irvine
and Niel Warnock have been shown the door and replaced by a couple of well-known names. The Premier League is a league of rotation when it comes to the managers.

All football managers dreams of one day being in charge of a Premier League side, but coaching in the Premier League seems to be limited to a certain group of men. As a matter of fact, the clubs often hire managers with a background in other Premier League clubs. A look on the current 20 managers in the league only seven have not been managing another Premier League club, including Newcastle interim manager John Carver.

Tony Pulis has taken over from Alan Irvine in West Bromwich - that's his  seventh spell in a Premier League club, two of them in Stoke. Just after him are Harry Redknapp and Sam Allardyce - two other long time serving PL managers. 

When comparing the clubs, it is worth noticing that the top sides all have foreign managers with no more than two or three Premier League clubs on their resume. Manuel Pellegrini, Jose Mourinho, Louis van Gaal and Ronald Koeman have experience from some of the best leagues in the world before joining the Premier League while Arsene Wenger has been in Arsenal for a decade. But it is worth noticing that the clubs considered to be the best in the league all are managed by a foreign manager, while clubs as West Bromwich Albion, Stoke, West Ham and QPR all have managers with long experience from other Premier League clubs. 

Could it be a sign that the British managers are not following the evolution of football? It seems so as the foreign managers contribute to the development of the league and are in charge of the best clubs. However, the foreign managers are most in charge of clubs with money and success and perhaps not the best in the business when it comes to saving lives. Let's take a look at Tony Pulis again - last season he was brought in to save Crystal Palace and managed to do so. This season he is brought in to save West Bromwich Albion and might just do so. The British managers style might be old and out of date, but it works time and time again when needed.

But, by the end of the day the Premier League is a league of rotation between the managers. A closed club for a limited number of persons why it is so hard for new managers to come in. But, if the lower- and midtable teams wants to mingle with the top new faces is needed.