Wigan sack Warren Joyce four months after he became manager

Wigan have ended Warren Joyce's reign just four months after it started.

Wigan have become the latest Sky Bet Championship club to sack their manager having ended Warren Joyce's reign just four months after it started.

After Norwich axed Alex Neil on Friday and Derby dispensed with Steve McClaren on Sunday, Latics followed suit in removing Joyce from his post with the club four points adrift of safety with only nine fixtures remaining.

Wigan, who have placed assistant Graham Barrow in temporary charge for the remainder of the campaign, won only six of their 24 fixtures under Manchester United's former reserve-team boss Joyce.

The 52-year-old left Old Trafford to sign a three-and-a-half-year contract with Wigan on November 2, with chairman David Sharpe noting at the time that the deal's length was "a measure of how highly we rate him".

He was backed in the winter transfer window as eight new players arrived on deadline day alone but, having taken charge of a club in the relegation zone, Joyce was unable to steer them away from trouble.