Chris Wilder completed a Quadruple in his first six months as a manager and has since won promotion into all four divisions.
It was a shock to the system when he was sacked by Middlesbrough last October – the first time his contract had been terminated in 21 years working at six different levels of English football's pyramid. And at face value the Watford job, where the average shelf life of the last eight head coaches has been 20 games, looks more like a motorway pit-stop than the long-stay car park.
But at 55, Wilder believes a three-month deal to the end of the season at Vicarage Road could yet be a short-cut back to the Premier League. If he can get a tune out of the Championship's most under-achieving squad, and if he's still at Watford in August, Wilder could join the four ex-Hornets bosses currently working in the penthouse – Marco Silva, Javi Gracia, Brendan Rodgers and Sean Dyche.
