Troubled Reading have rolled the dice in a bid to ensure Championship survival.
Last weekend saw the Royals pick up a first win in almost three months, beating Preston North End 3-2. But it wasn't enough to save boss Veljko Paunovic, who announced post-match that he was leaving the club.
His successor was announced on Saturday night, with the surprise appointment of Paul Ince.
It represents a first job in management for the former England captain since 2014, when he was in charge of Blackpool.
The 54-year-old's first game is Tuesday night's visit of Birmingham City.
Reading were docked six points earlier this season after a breach of financial regulations. Cost-cutting has been evident at the Select Car Leasing Stadium with a number of high-earners shipped out last summer and in January.
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For Ince, he now has a salvage mission to simply ensure Reading finish at least in their current position of 21st in the Championship.
They are five points above the current three bottom sides with 14 games left to play.
Ince is no stranger to a survival fight. His first job in the dugout was at League Two strugglers Macclesfield in 2006.
He joined when the Silkmen were seven points adrift of safety but managed to successfully pull off a great escape.
He even played his part on the pitch, too. Despite retiring to concentrate fully on the managerial side of things, Ince made a cameo substitute appearance in the final day draw with Notts County that kept Macclesfield up. It would prove to be the final outing in a career which saw him lift the Premier League and FA Cup and win 53 England caps.
He would ultimately leave Macclesfield for a job at ambitious MK Dons - a decision which left a bitter taste in the mouth for many fans of his former club.
At the time, he spoke about having better resources to work with - and even compared his "difficult decision" with that of French superstar Thierry Henry who at the time was preparing to swap Arsenal for Barcelona.
"My heart has said stay but my head has been telling me to go to MK Dons," Ince said, in the summer of 2007.
"This has been a tremendously difficult decision for me.
"It feels like the decision Thierry Henry has had to make regarding going to Barcelona.
"They have significantly more resources for me to work with and as I am ambitious to make it to the very top, I think I have to go for it.
"I will always remember my time at Macclesfield - this was where I started my managerial career - and I hope our supporters will understand why I am moving on.
"We came here last October to do a job - to keep Macclesfield in the Football League - and we did it."
Reading fans are unlikely to be as heartbroken as Silkmen supporters were, if Ince doesn't stick around beyond this season - just as long as he replicates his safety mission from 15 years ago.
