Top 10 Longest Serving Managers in English Football
8. Tony Pulis – 7 Years – Stoke City
After spending his first 3 years as manager at Stock City, a spell full of disagreements and lack of funds by the club in 2005 Pulis was sacked but retained in 2006 for a restart at Stoke City. in June 2006 Tony Pulis was announced as the new Stoke City manager for the second time in 4 years but this time around it was strictly business no playing around everything was provided for the English man.
Toney Pulis made a number of signings to strengthen the squad in October 2007 Tony Pulis was named manager of the month after picking 11 points out of 5 games which was quite good for the Stoke City team which was struggling for form, that year Stoke finished 8th in the Championship.
In 2008 after selling a number of key players to other clubs, Toney Pulis lived on a few of loan signings in which a few of them made permanent moves to the club in the January transfer window. After 23 years Tony Pulis finally guided Stoke City to the Premier League on the last day after not being in the Premier League for 23 years.
After a poor start to the 2012/13 season in the Premier League but ended up finishing 13th in the Premier League, Tony Pulis considered this as a season progress but chairman Peter Coates didn’t think of it that way and decided to let Tony Pulis go and was replaced byMark Hughes to mark and end to a 7 year spell at Stoke City making him 8th on the Top 10 Longest Serving Managers in English Football.