WHY WAS HE CALLED DEADLY DOUG?

IT WAS Jimmy Greaves who coined the ‘Deadly Doug’ nickname — partly due to the Aston Villa chairman’s fishing skills but also because of the number of managers he sacked. Here are the 15 bosses who worked for Ellis across his two spells at Villa: Tommy Cummings (1967-1968) Tommy Docherty (1968-1970) Vic Crowe (1970-1974) Ron Saunders (1974-1982) Tony Barton (1982-1984) Graham Turner (1984-1986) Billy McNeill (1986-1987) Graham Taylor (1987-1990) Jozef Venglos (1990-1991) Ron Atkinson (1991-1994) Brian Little (1994-1998) John Gregory (1998-2002) Graham Taylor (2002-2003) David O’Leary (2003-2006) Martin O’Neill (2006-2010)