Steve Cooper has a “brutal and unforgiving” job as Leicester City boss, says award-winning football writer Henry Winter.
Chants of “Cooper, Cooper sort it out” were sung by sections of Foxes fans as they succumbed to a 3-0 defeat at Manchester United before the international break.
Leicester have won just two of their 11 Premier League matches since being promoted back to the top flight.
Enzo Maresca took Leicester up from the Championship, with Cooper replacing the Italian after he left for the Chelsea job.
Winter says there remain “raised expectations” at the King Power Stadium after the club sensationally won the Premier League title eight years ago and adds that Foxes fans “remain to be convinced” by the former Nottingham Forest boss.
“The criticism will hurt him,” Winter, formerly of The Times and The Daily Telegraph, told BBC East Midlands Today.
“Managers, they are not robots – they are human beings. What were they singing the other day? ‘Cooper, Cooper sort it out’. And that is his job. It’s brutal and unforgiving and he has to sort it out.”
In the video above, Winter also talks about how Saturday’s match against Chelsea, and a reunion with promotion-winning boss Maresca, will make for an intriguing test for Leicester.