
Leicester City have sacked manager Craig Shakespeare just four months after he took up the role on a permanent basis.
Lying in the relegation zone, the club have not won in six league games.
The dismissed 53-year-old signed a three-year contract in June, thirteen months after they won the league with his former boss, Claudio Ranieri, in charge.
But as he too now exits, this is a selection of the best Craig Shakespeare sacked jokes:
Greatest playwright of all time Leicester are stupid
— ♛ King Bakayoko ♛ (@KingBakayoko) October 17, 2017
Monday: Ophelia
Tuesday: ShakespeareThe week is going from bard to verse
— Francis Keogh (@HonestFrank) October 17, 2017
Half n half scarves now half price pic.twitter.com/7DkLzULwcF
— The Rovers Ram® (@The_Rovers_Ram) October 17, 2017
Shakespeare crying in to his full English
— reub (@ulloafirsttouch) October 17, 2017
I was gutted when Shakespeare got axed. I said to him, "Now is the winter of Leicester's discontent."
"It's autumn," he replied.
Nitpicking.— Kevin Keegan (@GalacticKeegan) October 17, 2017
Expect Craig Shakespeare's statement to say "Will I bounce back? My Grandad fought in WW2, came home and mowed the lawn, I'll cope."
— GeorgeWeahsCousin (@WeahsCousin) October 17, 2017
Craig Shakespeare refusing to give Leicester their balls back pic.twitter.com/5dBCHuYNwD
— Football Burp ⚽ (@FootballBurp) October 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/gazbod/status/920310949940211712
Craig Shakespeare.
Sacked after being behind Ranieri sacking.
He has onomatopised his surname
— Tancredi Palmeri (@tancredipalmeri) October 17, 2017
Shakespeare when Leicester get relegated without him pic.twitter.com/oB9LKbW61O
— Football Burp ⚽ (@FootballBurp) October 17, 2017
Michael Appleton will take temporary charge of Leicester on Saturday, after Vodka Revs gave him the day off from doing the door. pic.twitter.com/hIRNnk58uK
— Coral (@Coral) October 17, 2017
Not surprised. He just couldn’t get them to playwright.
— Isaac Sirko (@Jimmy_S_Oldham) October 17, 2017
Leicester City have sacked Craig Shakespeare. Only one man for the job now pic.twitter.com/QrHJWV0ovb
— Danny Archer (@dannyarcher96) October 17, 2017
That bloke at Nantes looks to be doing a decent job. Maybe they can pry him away.
— Jack Hancock (@1983Jackhancock) October 17, 2017
Only 2 places ahead of Gary Lineker though…
— daniel handforth (@dan_handforth) October 17, 2017
Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up
To such a sudden flood of mutiny.
They that have done this deed are honorable.— Cartlon Cole (@_CarltonCole9) October 17, 2017
Leicester sacking Shakespeare disgusts me, proves how the world today doesn’t appreciate fine literature. Classless.
— ㅤㅤㅤً (@RightCentreBack) October 17, 2017
Craig Shakespeare looked like a character with loads of bad luck on Coronation Street anyway
— Sean (@SeanWalsh_97) October 17, 2017
— Will Atkins (@willatkins92) October 17, 2017