FOUR managers in five months at Leeds. Twenty managers in 36 years in total. Massimo Cellino goes through managers quicker than Tory MPs defect to Ukip.

He should never have been able to buy the club. Cellino was found guilty of tax evasion in Italy. It seems virtually impossible to fail the fit and proper test when criminals are allowed to take over sides in England.

Even if you ignore his criminal past, he sacked hordes of managers while in charge at Cagliari and who thought he would change his style of management while in England?

His “business plan” is no way to run a club and for those that feel sorry for the managers stop and think about the fans.

They don’t deserve to sit and watch their club be messed around like this and if they had it their way a lot of these managers wouldn’t be hired in the first place or the owner themselves would not be at the club.

Labour’s proposal — should they be elected in the next general election — to have more fan representation on the boards is a good idea and should have been brought in years ago.

While it won’t allow the supporters to elect new managers or change owners, it will give them a say on some important things such as the rise in ticket prices.

Fans on football teams’ boards may have been able to stop Cardiff owner Vincent Tan changing the colour of the home strip from blue to red and they also may be able to stop Hull owner Assem Allam rebranding the club name from Hull City to Hull Tigers.

Even if Labour do not get elected, it is something that the football league needs to think about instead of dismissing it before trialling it.

Fourteen of the 92 clubs in the English football league currently have fans on the board, while four of those sides are fully owned by the fans — AFC Wimbledon, Exeter, Portsmouth and Wycombe.

Portsmouth are a prime example of a club who have been ruined by terrible management and had there been fans on the board they might not have been in the position they are in now.

Don’t get me wrong, there was terrible management at club level and Harry Redknapp has to shoulder some of the blame whether he wants to or not.

But the fact of the matter is regardless of what new or potential owners say, their main interest is very rarely the club and is usually about making as much profit as they can.

Roman Abramovich has taken Chelsea to new levels and under his ownership the club have become self-sustainable. When he first took over I must admit, I thought he would ruin the club and the Blueswould suffer a similar fate to Leeds but he proved me wrong.

But for every Abramovich there is a Giampaolo Pozzo. The Watford owner is on his fourth manager this season alone. Oscar Garcia left the club due to his health but that doesn’t change the fact Pozzo is going through a hire manager turnover.

The FA can’t stop these owners from hiring and firing as often as they please, it is their club and they can do with them what they desire.

But they can allow more fans on board and Labour’s idea is a good one. Let’s hope they implement it sooner rather than later.