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Being a manager in the Premier League is not an easy job by any means, and to verify the same, one need only ask the five managers who've been sacked so far this season.
It is becoming a kind of trend in the English top flight for clubs to fire their managers in an impulsive decision, and what usually follows is the appointment of a caretaker manager.
As the name suggests, a caretaker manager is supposed to guide the players at his disposal to a better position on the league table than his predecessor, just until the club hierarchy finds the right man for the job.
But, some of these so-called 'caretaker' managers oversee a complete overhaul during their temporary charge at the club, impressing fans and pundits alike.
Current Manchester United coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is on a roll in his temporary tenure at his former club, and is proving why he can be the right man for the job.
But, until he is given a permanent place in the Old Trafford dugout, he might as well go on to become one of the most successful caretaker manager of all time, having gone unbeaten in his first 11 games as the coach of a club with whom he won a lot of trophies as a player.
So, with that being said, lets have a look at some of the best temporary managers to grace the beautiful game in the Premier League.
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#4 Tim Sherwood
Tottenham Hotspur have never had a managerial problem since Mauricio Pochettino took over in 2014, but before him, Spurs had appointed former England striker Tim Sherwood as the caretaker manager at the White Hart Lane, following the sacking of Andre-Villas Boas in December 2013.
The Portuguese manager was shown the door following a series of big losses to Manchester City and Liverpool.
Sherwood only lost 6 of the remaining 22 games of the season and led his former club to a respectable sixth position finish at the end of the season, earning automatic qualification to the Europa League.
He was dismissed from the job after the season ended, paving the way for former Southampton coach Pochettino to join the club, and the rest is history.
#3 Kenny Dalglish
The former Reds striker who had led the club to a domestic double in the 1985-86 season as a player-manager, found himself at the helm of his old club in the middle of the 2011-12 season again, as previous manager Roy Hodgson was sacked.
When Dalglish took over the first team, Liverpool were struggling in the league and found themselves at a lowly 12th in the table.
But under him, the club went on to have an unbeaten run of eight games that saw them leapfrog to the upper half of the table.
His second spell at Anfield would be remembered as the one that saw him pull his club out of misery, proving his managerial aptitude once again.
He also oversaw the arrival of one of the best attackers in Europe at the time in Luis Suarez at the club.
Though he earned a permanent position and a three-year contract, he was sacked in 2012, though he won the League Cup that season.
#2 Guus Hiddink
The only manager in our list who can claim to be an interim manager twice is the Dutch international Guus Hiddink.
Hiddink was appointed Chelsea manager twice in the last decade, and on both the occasions he left the club in a better position than when he had found them.
But, we consider the achievement of bringing The Blues, the reigning champions in the 2015-16 season, from the brink of relegation to a top-half finish a greater achievement than all that he achieved in his first temporary charge.
In 2009, he won the FA Cup and lost only one game across all competitions as a manager in his spell, while finishing third in the Premier League.
But, it was in his second spell that he would go on to set the record for the longest unbeaten start in charge of a PL club, with 12 games unbeaten following Jose Mourinho's departure that left the club at 16th in the table.
He helped the club to a solid sixth-place finish and then left the club.
#1 Roberto Di Matteo
Roberto Di Matteo, another one of Chelsea's long list of interim managers makes it into our list, for one and one reason only. He guided the club to become the first London based club in history to lift the coveted UEFA Champions League trophy in 2012.
The Italian manager was promoted to lead the first team, after Andre-Villas Boas was dismissed late in the season on 4 March.
With just three months of the season remaining, Matteo had an easy job cut out for him. But, he ended up making the most of the talented squad at his disposal in those three months and ended his temporary charge with two trophies to his name.
He created history as he won the Champions League, inflicting an unlikely loss on Bayern Munich at their own Allianz Arena, etching his name permanently into Chelsea folklore.
He was handed the job on a permanent basis following his success, but suffered the same consequences as that of the man he had replaced just eight months ago in the middle of the 2012-13 season.
And again Chelsea placed an interim manager in Rafael Benitez in his place, who led them to another European title in the Europa League that season.
