By Jonathan Stevenson

Barely a week goes by now without an English club parting company with its manager.

Hutchings (left) and Cotterill are the latest managers to go

For a variety of reasons 11 bosses lost their jobs in October and another two, Chris Hutchings at Wigan and Burnley's Steve Cotterill, have already followed suit in the first eight days of November.

With a little over seven weeks until the transfer window reopens, it seems chairmen across the land are jostling for position come crazy season.

This time of year is a notoriously tricky one to be in charge of a football club. So high are the stakes these days that a couple of bad results can mean a manager is in danger of losing his job.

And when a vacancy comes up, chairmen are wary of appointing young coaches with a lack of experience, choosing instead to plump for guys who have been there, done that - even if they have a failure or two to their name.

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When Hutchings was clinically dispatched from the JJB Stadium, who were the first names linked with the job? Paul Jewell, Graeme Souness, Peter Reid and Joe Royle, and chairman Dave Whelan has already revealed Jewell would be his top pick.

Like most of the other posts, the job is unlikely to go to one of the many promising young coaches who have studied hard over a long period of time to complete their Uefa Pro licence qualification.

BBC Sport, with the help of experienced former manager Graham Taylor and aspiring boss Dean Saunders, wonders whether English football has a problem.

"I was told you cannot work in the Premier League unless you have got a Pro Licence. They are the rules. But sometimes people have got jobs without having one so obviously they are not the rules."

If every young coach feels the same way as Dean Saunders, there clearly is a problem somewhere down the line.

Roeder (left) and Southgate got special dispensation to manage

Glenn Roeder and Gareth Southgate were both allowed to manage in the Premier League without having a licence and Chelsea boss Avram Grant was given a 12-week period of grace to acquire the relevant qualification.

Saunders says in order to take the Pro Licence seriously, in the future such exemptions cannot be allowed to happen.

"I have been doing my licences for the past five years, going away from my family for two weeks every summer and doing a lot of work the rest of the year too," the Welshman told BBC Sport.

"It is frustrating to see people getting jobs who haven't got the badges, for sure.

"It is a little bit demotivating for the people who have done these courses because you thought you had to do it, but then you see people get away with it who haven't.

"I don't want this to sound like sour grapes because I'm assistant manager of Wales so I've got a great job at the moment, but it's true."

Former Watford, Aston Villa and England manager Taylor believes Saunders is right to have got all his qualifications, but says English football is increasingly turning to foreigners off the pitch as well as on it.

TAYLOR'S MANAGERIAL CAREER 1972-77: Lincoln City 1977-87: Watford 1987-90: Aston Villa 1990-93: England 1994-95: Wolves 1996-2001: Watford 2002-03: Aston Villa

"Personally I don't think there is a shortage of good young British managers, you only have to look at the job Gary Johnson is doing at Bristol City to see that," Taylor told BBC Sport.

"I'm just not sure that chairman are really looking for them when a job comes up and there is little doubt young coaches in England are missing out on getting jobs.

"The problem is that the Premier League is such a global game now that we have so many foreign players and managers and this is where clubs are looking - not at young English talent.

"The top four clubs have not had English managers for a while now and Spurs have just gone for a Spaniard in Juande Ramos after sacking Dutchman Martin Jol.

"What annoys me most is that people say our managers are not good enough - but how the hell are we ever going to know if they are never given the chance? It is ridiculous."

Such are the financial costs of failure in football these days, chairmen are under enormous pressure to get it right when it comes to picking their club's new gaffer.

Both Saunders and Taylor believe young coaches might be suffering because of the sheer weight of expectation fans and the media put on clubs.

If you make silly mistakes due to inexperience you may not get another crack at management Dean Saunders

"There is a very great fear when you are talking about what is at stake nowadays with all the money involved," said Taylor.

"Clubs who go down from the Premier League get a parachute payment but I believe all that is doing is creating a separation of clubs in the Championship as well as the one we see in the top flight.

"One of my concerns is that eventually this is going to seep down through the entire league system in England and as a result, the pressures become even greater."

Saunders agrees. "It is getting harder for someone who owns a football club to give a job to someone who has never been a manager before.

"If I'm being completely honest, if I owned a club I would really have to think hard about that one.

"Pro Licence or not, if a chairman wants you to become his manager he'll make you the manager. That's a fact."

With managers given such little time, there is so much pressure on young bosses when they are finally given their big chance.

Saunders says he has been biding his time before taking his first job in management because he wants to give himself the best possible chance of getting it right.

Saunders (right) is learning from Wales manager John Toshack (left)

"I have spent five years working at the highest level as a coach in the Premier League under Graeme Souness and Mark Hughes and now under John Toshack with Wales too," added the former Liverpool and Derby striker.

"I did my apprenticeship because I didn't want to go into management straight away - you only get one bite at the cherry.

"If you make silly mistakes due to inexperience you may not get another crack, so I thought I'd try and learn as much as possible off some great managers and these Uefa courses too.

"You just have to pick the right time and hope you get given the opportunity to take a club forward in the right way."

Taylor thinks many young prospective managers in England now should be looking to move abroad to boost their credentials.

"If I could do it all over again, I would learn another language because it would be so helpful in dealing with foreign players, and I would consider trying my luck at a club abroad," said Taylor.

"If young bosses aren't getting the chance in England, they should go overseas, be successful and come back with your reputation enhanced.

"I am intrigued to see how Chris Coleman is going to do at Real Sociedad. He has a great opportunity at a big club in Spain, albeit one that has struggled recently, and he can raise his profile if he does a good job.

"The fact is that no young manager in England is going to get one of the top jobs, it just is not going to happen. So you have to think again."