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Pressure is building on Erik ten Hag and history tells us it's a long road back when Manchester United are in crisis... here's how it ended for his Old Trafford predecessors

Here we go again. Manchester United in crisis. The manager under pressure.

Erik ten Hag is the latest to feel the heat, the Dutchman the bookies' second favourite to become the next Premier League boss to be sacked.

Back-to-back 3-0 home defeats by Manchester City in the Old Trafford derby and a weakened Newcastle team in the Carabao Cup have plunged Ten Hag into crisis just 18 months after he was appointed.

Sir Alex Ferguson spent more than a quarter of a century in charge of United, but none of his successors have lasted particularly long in the job.