Malky Mackay
Malky Mackay has been sacked as Cardiff City manager after a meeting of the club?s board of directors.
A statement on the club?s website says a new first team manager will be appointed in due course.
His dismissal came less than 24 hours after the club?s 3-0 home Boxing Day defeat by Southampton.
It followed a public row with the club?s billionaire owner Vincent Tan, who wrote to Mackay on 16 December asking him to resign or be sacked.
Tan also accused Mackay of overspending in the transfer market and announced the manager would have no money to spend in the January transfer window.
The 41-year-old Scotsman refused to resign, and subsequently led the team in the matches against Liverpool and Southampton before his dismissal.
Mackay had been in charge at Cardiff for two-and-a-half years after taking over from Dave Jones in June 2011.
He guided the club back to the top flight of English football after a 52-year absence when they won the Championship title in 2013.
The first signs of a problem between the owner and the manager emerged in October 2013 when the club?s director of recruitment Iain Moody was removed from his post.
Moody, a long-term friend and colleague who worked with Mackay at Watford, was replaced by 23-year-old Kazakh Alisher Apsalamov who was a friend of Tan?s son.
Moody played a major role in the recruitment of summer signings Gary Medel and Steven Caulker and the decision to remove him upset Mackay, who described Moody as ?a class act?.
No official reason was given for Moody?s removal at the time, but it emerged in December that owner Tan felt Moody was responsible for an alleged overspend of ?15m on the club?s transfer budget.
Tan claimed the club had spent ?50m on transfers following their promotion to the Premier League after being given a budget of ?35m.
Moody and Mackay both denied there had been an overspend.
