Leeds have recently dismissed head coach David Hockaday just six games after his appointment.

The defeat at Bradford was Leeds' third consecutive loss, and following this, Hockaday's departure was announced in less than 24 hours together with the club's assistant manager Junior Lewis. In lieu with this, Neil Redfearn will take charge of the team until the owner Massimo Cellino appoints a successor to the post.

Hockaday was a former Forest Green boss and he was admittedly unexpected to be the replacement of Brian McDermott in June. After his appointment, the team faced two consecutive defeats against Brighton and Watford respectively. After the second loss, Cellino admitted that he considered sacking Hockaday.

The stay of execution proved short, and Cellino said: "The results since the start of the season have meant we needed to act and make this decision.

"After the defeat at Bradford I realised that my decision to keep David at the club following the defeat at Watford was wrong, and I had to change my mind on the coach's position.

"As a club we will now begin our search for a new head coach."

There are suggestions going around, and former West Brom boss Steve Clarke will be considered for the role.

"I don't think anybody would be a good choice," he told Irish radio station News Talk.

"I think this fella is a headbanger, that owner; I think he only employed that coach (Hockaday) so that he could pick the team, bring the players in that he wants.

"No manager worth his salt will touch that job. This fella should make himself manager and pick the team himself. He employed this lad from nowhere, paying him buttons apparently."