Leon Wobschall: Trigger Happy TV - Crystal Palace's sacking of Frank de Boer represents new low

After the transfer window deadline-day bandwagon, there was a new Sky Sports show in town to provide the next sugar-rush overload to sate the fast-food appetites of those watching viewers seeking their next voyeuristic footballing fix after the excesses of August 31.

The first frontline managerial departure (sacking) of the new season and all the fall-out that goes with it. That’s entertainment. Sadly, it is as much a part of the autumn as leaves on the line.

Pundits had their say, managers had their say, punters had their say. It all transpired, in thoroughly unedifying fashion, on Monday when former Dutch international defender Frank de Boer was shown his cards after just four (FOUR) league games in charge at Crystal Palace. You read that right, four.

His tenure lasted about as long as a couple of journeys from Hull to Rotterdam on the ferry as he was chewed up and spat out by the Premier League monster, which never ceases to amaze. The Palace hierarchy have truly surpassed themselves here. A new low.

The summer declarations in the boardroom about De Boer quickly building a new, sophisticated ‘total Croydon’ footballing DNA at Palace in the classic Dutch footballing ethos in double-quick time sounded lofty after the successful pragmatism of Sam Allardyce.

It has ultimately proved to be total claptrap.

Four games, four losses and yet another board have feverishly hit the panic button, failing to realise that Rome is, in fact rarely, built in a day. Their long-term plan was clearly cobbled together on the back of a betting slip ...

To many neutrals, Palace were a harmless enough club who most never used to mind. Aside from the parking issues when travelling to Selhurst Park.

Given the vibrant atmosphere there in recent years, they seemed to possess one of the more keeping-it-real, glad-to-be-here fanbases who were unstinting in their support of the Eagles and didn’t possess a divine right to win every game 3-0.

Sadly, the club’s latest move will ensure that those same neutrals will not be too unhappy if they drop back into the Championship in the spring.

As for Yorkshire, well, we didn’t fare too badly in the early sacking stakes last season and long may it continue.

Even Massimo Cellino showed unexpected patience in electing not to propel Garry Monk into orbit last month. It sometimes does pay off. Well, almost.

The only axing ahead of the New Year was Alan Stubbs at Rotherham after winning just one of his 13 games in charge.

Like De Boer, Stubbs was another classy centre-half in his playing days who espoused a play-out-from-the-back footballing credos and clearly had pure footballing habits. An unassuming, quietly-spoken but focused guy with an eye on the bigger picture whose philosophy, briefly, won Tony Stewart.

If your club appoints a similar figure to De Boer or Stubbs if your manager gets shown the door soon, then I’d start to worry - they probably won’t last long.