Here is a sentence you never want written about your soccer team: Twenty minutes after Saturday's 0-3 loss to Chelsea, Nottingham Forest fired the manager it had hired just 39 days ago.

That's right, Ange Postecoglou is out. His sacking was announced via terse statement from the team just minutes after Postecoglou himself had stepped off the grass at the City Ground. Pity the mid-level Forest executive who was tasked with intercepting the curmudgeonly Australian outside the dressing room and informing him that he no longer had a job. That guy probably got called some rude names, at least one of them starting with the letter "c."

Ange's tenure at Forest will go down as one of the most disappointing and ill-advised in top-flight history. Forest racked up a record of six losses and two draws during Postecoglou's eight games in charge, including a 3-2 loss to Danish side Midtjylland in the Europa League. Worse than the results themselves is how easy they were to see coming. Previous manager Nuno Espirito Santo spent all of last season fashioning Forest into a stout defensive unit with a vicious counter attack, which made the team wholly unsuited to practice Postecoglou's preferred style of...