The 52-year-old was tasked with succeeding where Jack Ross couldn’t by getting the Black Cats promoted out of League One, but after a little over 13 months at the helm, his side failed to ever really show the consistency and killer instinct needed to make that aspiration a reality.
Parkinson was the 17th permanent manager that Sunderland had appointed since the turn of the millennium, and while the hunt is now on for number 18, we’ve taken a closer look at each of those tenures to see how the recent departure’s average points per game tally stacks up compared to his predecessors.
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*All stats courtesy of Transfermarkt. For the purposes of this article, we have only looked at managers who have been appointed on a permanent basis.