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Well 10 months later he's unemployed and tainted, another young manager with a big failure on his CV. He'll be lucky to get the equivalent of the old Luton job now. Paul Ince anyone?

Jones should never have taken that job, I couldn't think of a worse Championship club he could have gone to. At the time Stoke needed an experienced manager with Championship promotion pedigree of the ilk of Allardyce, Moyes, Pearson and they went for someone young with zero Championship...

It was a bad appointment from the start. Stoke was a club full of old pros, decent squad on paper who needed a wise sage of a manager who they'd respect. What they got was a young inexperienced manager.