This is fucking nuts:
Nottingham Forest have sacked their manager Sean O'Driscoll just hours after a 4-2 home win over Leeds United left them one point adrift of the play-off places. The owners, Fawaz and Abdulaziz al-Hasawi, say they have made the decision because they want a manager with "Premier League experience".
The decision to relieve the 55-year-old of his duties comes only five months after he replaced the sacked Steve Cottrell, who the owners did not want after they completed their buy-out at the end of last season. O'Driscoll, who left Crawley to take over, leaves Forest eighth in the table.
"We cannot speak highly enough of Sean as a man," the chairman, Fawaz al-Hasawi, told the club's website. "He was appointed at an extremely difficult time for the club and can count himself unlucky to have lost his job with the team just one point away from the top six. But we have a responsibility to look to the future for this great club because we have huge ambitions for it. We knew when we bought the club in the summer that it would take time for the players we bought in to settle but that process has taken longer than we anticipated.
"We feel we have developed a really strong squad of players but are still searching for consistency in terms of team performance, underlined by the fact that we have not won more than two games in succession in the Championship this season. And with the January transfer window approaching, we feel it's the right time to make a change. We are looking to bring in an ambitious manager with Premier League experience."
The Forest striker Billy Sharp, who turned the match against Leeds with two goals after they trailed to an early effort from Luciano Becchio, responded to O'Driscoll's shock sacking by tweeting "gutted, that ruins a decent day".
