Football(soccer) coaches are usually underrated characters in the sport. Nonetheless, there is massive press coverage of the managers and their whereabouts. Based on that, is it possible to predict if a football manager from the English Premier League will be fired based on news articles from the UK press before his dismissal?
To narrow the research, the specific question this work aims to answer is: is it possible to predict when football managers from the English Premier League will be fired based on the content of news articles gathered between the 2004/05 and 2018/19 seasons?