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He is one of that group of managers that has a promotion on his resume and there are chairman up and down the country who will be completely swayed by that one season on his resume!!!  Virtually all managers fail eventually, so I think a lot of chairman are prepared to turn a blind eye to these failures and completely focus on the successes.

1 promotion and 2 relegations. It's not exactly great is it? He did well at Wigan because a lot of those players in L1 were Championship players plus he had a good budget.