If you think back to Sam Allardyce in his pomp at Bolton, signing players aged 30 and upwards and getting the best of them by being one of the few managers to really buy into sports science, and the idea that he could be seen as "yesterdays man" is rather surprising. Similarly, it's only a couple of years ago that Stoke had three seasons on the bounce finishing 9th in the premier league, getting the best out of Bojan etc., and yet Mark Hughes is likely to struggle to get his next job at that level. Either the game has moved exceptionally quick within the past few years, and/or these managers have become lazy in developing their ideas, or pundits have become lazy in how they describe this lot of UK managers because anything other than a black and white story is hard to write.