Matt Maher: Failing upward has become an art form in football management

There is no other profession where more people fail upward than football management.

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Just three months after being sacked by Wolves after taking just two points from the seaso’s first 10 matches, Vitor Pereira is back in the Premier League at Nottingham Forest.

Great news, perhaps, for managers of Wetherspoons across the East Midlands’ city.

Maybe not so good for supporters of Forest, for whom Pereira is the fourth manager of a chaotic season.

In truth, Pereira might not turn out to be such a bad appointment, at least in the short-term.