It's a list which brings together the bad and the downright terrible. The likes of the infamous Christian Gross and the somewhat lesser known achievements of one Gordon Hill of Chester City manage to escape our list of shame.
Some you will remember well, others will be a flickering memory of football past. So as not to add further pain to those listed they come in alphabetical order - you can draw your own conclusions.
John Barnes (Celtic)
The trend for appointing managers on their playing history rather than their coaching ability will probably never go away. The kudos of having a player of great stature managing your club is hard to ignore.
John Barnes replaced Dr Jozef Venglos in the summer of 1999, charged with returning the glory days to Parkhead after they had won the SPL title only once in the previous 11 seasons. With former Liverpool team-mate and Celtic legend Kenny Dalglish providing support from on high it seemed like te perfect match.
It all started so well, with Celtic hammering Aberdeen 5-0 at Pittodrie on the opening day of the SPL season. In fact, Barnes' early record is quite astounding: Pld-15 Won-13 Lost-2 For-44 Against-5.
Alas, it didn't last and Barnes' honeymoon period was over in October. Celtic suffered five defeats in eight games, including the Old Firm derby and exiting the UEFA Cup in the Second Round at the hands of Lyon. By the turn of the year there were countless stories of unrest within the dressing room.
Barnes' final signing was Rafael Scheidt, a £4.8million Brazilian from Gremio who would play only five games for the club - three of those from the bench - before the club cut their considerable losses.
The final straw came on February 8 when Celtic were embarrassingly knocked out of the Scottish Cup by minnows Inverness Caledonian Thistle, amazingly losing 3-1 at Celtic Park. Two days later he was gone.
Barnes lasted only six months in the management game. His ability to read the autocue on his Football Night show on
Five bares a striking resemblance to his coaching career.
Tony Cottee (Barnet)
Barnet felt they had pulled off something of a coup when persuading Tony Cottee to leave a decent playing contract at Norwich City to turn his hand to management in what was then the Third Division.
The Bees were looking up, intent on reaching at least the play-offs and booking a return to the Second Division. As with Barnes, it started so brilliantly.
In his first home match after taking over in November 2000 it was Blackpool who made the trip to Underhill. Cottee and Co dished out a 7-0 thrashing, with the boss himself scoring the opening goal. All seemed rosy... for one match.
Barnet won only two of their next ten games, including a 6-1 beating at Harlepool United. By the time Cottee left the club in mid-March they were all but relegated. He won only four League matches in what was a disastrous four-month spell in charge.
His record in all competitions was: Pld-25 Won-7 Drawn-3 Lost-15. And three of those victories came in the FA Cup First Round against Hampton & Richmond and in the LDV Vans Trophy.
They went down on the final day when they lost at home to Torquay United in a relegation shoot-out. It's taken four years for them to recover from Cottee's days in charge, finally winning promotion back to the Football League for the 2005/06 campaign.
Terry Fenwick (Northampton Town)
Former England international Terry Fenwick was another manager who arrived at a lower league club to a fanfare. It was a fanfare that was soon replaced by the cries of pain from supporters as they watched their players run around the pitch with no leadership or tactical awareness.
Fenwick took over at Sixfields just after the turn of the year in the 2002/03 season. He was in charge for just seven games over 47 days, during which the Cobblers failed to win a single game and picked up just two points.
They would not recover from a tenure of complete farce and Northampton finished bottom of the Second Division, five points adrift of Mansfield and a further six from the safety zone.
All that can be said in defence of Fenwick is that the team was not exactly performing well before his arrival - but they were even worse afterwards.
Fenwick's spell as Northampton boss is the second shortest in English football history. He was last seen at Ashford Town of the Ryman League First Division, a job from which he resigned in January - the club went on to finish third from bottom, avoiding relegation by one point.
Stuart Gray/Steve Wigley (Southampton)
It seemed only right to group two of Rupert Lowe's great mistakes into one section. And it just goes to show that some people don't learn from their mistakes.
Gray was elevated to the manager's job at Southampton following Glenn Hoddle's defection to Tottenham in March 2001. He took charge for the remainder of the season before being given the post on a 'permanent' basis in the summer.
Lowe remained stubborn in his support of Gray despite a poor start to the 2001/02 season. They lost their opening three games without scoring and by mid-October had recorded only two wins and failed to score five times. When Gray was sacked he had lost 11 of his 19 matches in charge.
But Lowe again tried to promote from within when the Southampton players had forced out Paul Sturrock in August last year. This time it was Steve Wigley's turn to look like a little lost boy amid the glare of the national media.
This time the price would be higher, Southampton winning just three times in 17 matches and eventually seeing their 28-year stay in the top-flight come to a sad end.
On both occasions it was as though everyone but the Southampton chairman knew the appointment was doomed to failure. Now, surely he's not going to bring an egg chaser to the club. Is he?
Martin Hinshelwood (Brighton)
It's fitting that Hinshelwood comes after Gray and Wigley in this list. His appointment is in many ways similar. Was it sheer laziness on the part of the board or did every other candidate turn the job down?
After much speculation about the vacant manager's job at the Withdean in the summer of 2002, Brighton promoted their youth team manager to the lead role.
It all started so well as Brighton won 3-1 at Burnley on the opening day and drew 0-0 with Coventry four days later. However, they did not win another point under his stewardship.
Twelve games later and the Seagulls found themselves in a dog-fight at the foot of the table having lost 10 League games in a row. Their only other 'win' was an extra time victory at home to lowly Exeter City in the League Cup, losing to Ipswich in the following round.
He was replaced after a 1-0 defeat at Watford in early October. But their losing League run would stretch to 12, leaking a total of 30 goals in the process, leaving Brighton nine points adrift of safety with only two months of the season gone.
By the time Hinshelwood's tenure came to an end he was a desolate figure on the touchline waiting for the end to come. He was moved upstairs to become the club's Director of Football - quite a grand title for one who failed so miserably as a boss.
Kevin Keegan (England)
'He was the people's choice', I hear you cry! Nonsense. That was never the case. Dredge up any poll from the post-Glenn Hoddle period and you'll find a different name at the head of the list.
A certain Terry Venables was the true people's choice to take over at the helm, but the Football Association opted to prise Keggy away from his cushy job with Fulham - despite his pledge of loyalty to the Cottagers - and spin us the media line which most now believe to be true.
Simple fact - Keegan was never good enough as a club manager and as such he wasn't going to cut it on the international stage. He's a self-confessed failure.
His first game, a 3-1 victory over Poland, captured the imagination of the country. It was exciting, vibrant and, of course, victorious. But it soon went downhill. England faced a play-off with Scotland to reach Euro 2000 after finishing behind group winners Sweden. And they only just made the finals after a dismal second leg dismal at Wembley.
Then England failed to get out of a group containing Romania, Germany and Portugal. Although Keegan claimed a famous win over Germany, a matter of months later it was the Germans who would win the final ever match and Wembley and lead to Keegan's resignation after an uninspiring spell.
England played bereft of organisation, leadership and the passion which Keegan was famed for.
Steve Morrison (East Stirlingshire)
And so we come to the man dubbed as 'Britain's worst manager' by some north of the border. His record as manager of East Stirling in 2003/04 is now folklore among Scottish fans, a tenure which finally came to an end after a run of 15 consecutive defeats.
Morrison, the first player signed by Alex Ferguson at Aberdeen, took over at Firs Park in March 2003. When he tendered his resignation almost a year to the day, with a helping hand from chairman Alan Mackin, the club had not won a game since beating Elgin City on November 1.
After Morrison departed the run of consecutive defeats stretched to 25 before they finally avoided defeat with a victory on the final day of the season, coincidentally against Elgin.
The one-time Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup winners picked up only eight points, won only twice and lost 32 times with 118 goals conceded. Put simply, it was the worst performance in the history of the Third Division.
A simple victory became like winning a trophy.
It's worth mentioning his fine record at doomed Clydebank in 2000 when he managed for 22 games, won twice and lost 13. Can any manager beat such a horrendous record?
They say 'don't give up your day job'. Well, Morrison returned to his as a class-room support worker at a school for boys with emotional and behavioural problems.
Glenn Roeder (West Ham)
Guiding a Premiership team to finish seventh in the table is something to be proud of. The concerns over the appointment of Roeder at Upton Park, in succession to Harry Redknapp, seemed to be misguided and there was much optimism going into the 2002/03 campaign.
However, the signings of Tomas Repka (£5.5m) and Don Hutchison (£5m) should have served as a warning of what was to come.
Roeder managed to guide a team full of the English game's brightest talents to the brink of relegation, and when Trevor Brooking stood in due to Roeder's illness the damage had already been done.
West Ham didn't win a single game until the end of September and failed to muster a home victory until February was coming around.
Roeder had the considerable talents of David James, Michael Carrick, Joe Cole, Jermain Defoe, Trevor Sinclair, Frederic Kanoute, Paolo di Canio, Glen Johnson and Lee Bowyer at his disposal.
But he couldn't even manage to keep such a talented bunch in the Premiership never mind push for Europe. West Ham went down, and before long each of those star names would depart too.
West Ham stood by Roeder, for a few weeks of the First Division season at least. But perhaps the squads refusal to get changed in Rotherham's run-down Millmoor changing rooms was the final straw.
After returning to the ground after getting changed at the the team hotel they then lost 1-0. Roeder left the club the next day.
Mark Weaver (Doncaster)
Was this some demented sketch on a comedy show? No, it really did happen. It's the middle of the 1997/98 season and Doncaster are in trouble at the foot of the Third Division. No-one knows what's going on, who's running what or in charge of team affairs.
Perhaps this was underlined when dodgy 'benefactor' Ken Richardson put a new man in charge of Rovers - general manager Mark Weaver. Prior to 'managing' Doncaster, Weaver's only experience in football was (allegedly) selling lottery tickets at Stockport.
It remains unclear who was the organ grinder and who was the monkey in one of football's truly sordid tales, but needless to say the plan fell on its arse.
Three years earlier, Richardson had taken overall charge of team selection for ten matches. He then passed the job onto the club's first team coach - but he resigned after two games due to interference.
This time Weaver was the fall guy as Doncaster lurched from one defeat to another, finished bottom on 20 points with only four wins to their name - the worst ever performance in the Third Division.
With the club broke and with no direction a stream of waffs and strays turned out of Donny over the remaining months. It seemed as though you'd get a game if you'd brought your boots. The team selections, substitutions and team talks were nothing short of bizarre.
After an 8-0 defeat at Leyton Orient at Christmas he said: 'I am sure I could have picked 11 from the terraces who would have played with more pride and commitment than a lot of the players.' The team contained seven teenagers including a 17-year-old goalkeeper.
Still, at least they turned down Uri Geller's offer of help.
Howard Wilkinson & Steve Cotterill (Sunderland)
The tale goes that Black Cats chairman Bob Murray rang up his friend at the Football Association, then-Technical Director Howard Wilkinson, to ask his advice about appointing a successor to the sacked Peter Reid. Wilkinson's response was to offer his own services.
With him he brought Steve Cotterill, who controversially quit Stoke City to become the number two at the Premiership club. The idea was that Cotterill would learn from the experienced hand and eventually take over as the main man. Well, that was the idea.
However, Sunderland embarked on a disastrous run of results which saw they sink without trace at the foot of the table. Although Mick McCarthy was latterly at the helm, the blame for a record breaking run of Premiership defeats lands firmly in the hands of these two. After Christmas, they picked up only one point.
The duo managed at the Stadium of Light for 27 matches, winning only four times and losing 15. The club has only just recovered from a desperate spell of dire football at the hands of Wilkinson and Cotterill.
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