FORMER Newport County manager Terry Butcher believes there is no patience from club owners when it comes to standing by a manager.

The England legend, who is world renowned for his role with the national team, where he earned 77-caps and skippered the Three Lions to the World Cup semi-final in Italia 90, was sacked as County boss earlier this season.

Butcher was appointed on April 30 on a two-year deal but was sacked on October 1, just ten games into the new campaign. The Exiles accrued five points in that time and won just one game.

And Butcher, speaking broadly on Talksport Radio about the volume of managers sacked this season – 18 out of 92 Football League clubs so far and counting – admitted clubs are also seemingly oblivious to the financial repercussions of changing manager.

Butcher, who has returned to his Suffolk home after briefly moving to Bristol while in charge at Rodney Parade, believes clubs no longer show any long-term planning in hiring and firing managers.

“There is no patience from people at the top of clubs any more, they’ve got their advisors, the internet, social media, the press and everything like that, and there is a lot of pressure on them in many aspects and a lot of people in their ears,” he explained.

“So they think change is the right thing, but when you change manager at a football club, you change staff as well and it’s a whole financial calamity in many aspects.

“You are changing personnel and philosophies as well and it is a major gamble, but people at the top think it is the way to go.”

Butcher believes the days of managers being given time to turn around poor results are gone for good.

“We are not even a quarter of the way through the season and in changing manager, you are asking the players to forget the philosophy which they’ve been programmed to play and it all changes,” he said.

“You look back to our days at Ipswich (he was speaking with former teammate at Portman Road, Alan Brazil), when Bobby Robson was under pressure he got a ten-year contract and it helped us massively.

“We used to get 18 months, now you don’t even get 18 games.”

Butcher, however, doesn’t think the problem is unique to the English game.

“It’s difficult to have a Rooney Rule for English coaches,” he said.

“We have less British coaches than in other countries, but we have far more foreign players, there aren’t so many British players in the Premier League and there aren’t many British owned clubs.

“But five coaches have been sacked this season in Serie A as well, so it’s not just in England.”