It took its time coming, but this week finally saw the first Premier League managerial casualty as Fulham sacked Slavisa Jokanovic.

It wasn’t a shock dismissal, as Fulham’s defence has suffered from more leaks than Manchester City’s financial department, chopping and changing personnel and formation every week in an attempt to stop the flow of goals.

Against Liverpool it briefly looked as though a corner had been turned as they only conceded twice in a game most predicted would see a cricket scoreline but this wasn’t enough to save Jokanovic’s job.

One reason The Cottagers managed to lose by just two goals in that game was the use of 4 central defenders, in a formation that when defending resembled a 5-4-1, with Ryan Sessegnon playing like a wing back and Calum Chambers sitting in front of the defence.

If Jokanovic had been left in charge for a while longer we may have got to the logical end point of this tactic and seen Fulham deploy a back four in front of another back four which would have been highly entertaining.

Sadly the change has been made and now Claudio Ranieri will be tasked with keeping Fulham up and if his last Premier League charges are anything to go by they should be alright.

If anyone can improve this Fulham defence it’s the man who won the league with a centre-back partnership of Robert Huth and Wes Morgan.

Further down the leagues several managers came and went, but at the basement of League 2 Notts County parted ways with their second manager this season.

Harry Kewell became the second former Premier League player to depart Meadow Lane after Kevin Nolan bit the dust after an appalling start which Kewell could do nothing to turn around in his two months in charge.

Contrast this season, where the club have hovered in and around the relegation zone since day one, to last where the club led the way for the first part of the season before tailing off into a play-off place, losing badly over two legs to Coventry.

There is a nice parallel between Fulham and Notts County. Both performed well last season, albeit with a few shaky spells, and made the play-offs in their leagues. Also like Fulham, in Alan Hardy Notts have an owner who is willing to invest in the club and over the summer he spent heavily, bringing in players all over the pitch.

One position that was neglected in this spree though was at centre-back and, again following the Fulham blue-print, Notts have been conceding a hat-full of goals. (As I write, County have just lost to Cheltenham 3-0 at home.)

Desperate attempts to reinforce in defence followed, with three players signed on free transfers (Former Non-League player Jamie Turley, former West Ham and Norwich defender Elliot Ward and left-back Cedric Evina) but to no avail as the club seems stuck in a rut, waiting for its third manager of the season to come in and right the ship.