Quiz! Can you name all 61 managers to have taken charge of 100+ Premier League games?

A quarter of a century ago today, Brian Deane invented football – or something – and the Premier League was born. At the time, it was mainly about the clubs and superstar players like, erm, Deane, Mick Harford, Steve Bould and the other glamourpusses who scored on that opening weekend.

However, centre stage has increasingly been hogged by the chaps on the sidelines in their suits, tracksuits or whichever fitted mauve V-neck number Pep is rocking. We live in the age of the super-manager, but the job is also never more fraught – the gaffer is the easiest fellow to ship out when results go wrong.

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Alex Reid

Alex Reid is a freelance journalist and the former digital features editor at FourFourTwo. He has also written for the Guardian, talkSPORT, Boxing News and Sport magazine. Like most Londoners, he is a lifelong supporter of Aberdeen FC. He is deceptively bad in the air for a big man. He has never been a cage fighter.