Football can be a pretty transient business, out of the door at one club one week, in the door at another the next.<\/p>\n
Cambridge United boss Neil Harris and his director of football Mark Bonner will need to ensure the door they go through at Priestfield Stadium on Boxing Day (15:00 GMT) is marked ‘visitors’.<\/p>\n
Harris spent 20 months in charge at Gillingham, which included relegation from League One, while Bonner’s eight-month stint produced 15 defeats in his 28 games.<\/p>\n
Since then Harris has been at Cambridge, who he left for Millwall, before returning to the Abbey Stadium in February<\/a> where once again he was powerless to prevent relegation – see what I mean about the transience?<\/p>\n His second stint with the U’s came at the same time as former boss Bonner’s appointment as director of football – are you keeping up?<\/p>\n They are just one point outside the play-offs <\/a>but only four ahead of their opponents.<\/p>\n Gillingham’s recent seasons have been mirror images – impressive starts followed by a downturn in form and failure to even trouble the top seven.<\/p>\n Four managers in under two years tells the story and although Gareth Ainsworth’s arrival <\/a>in March inspired a 21-game unbeaten run, time off for the boss to recover from heart surgery<\/a> and more indifferent results means they are once again in danger of flattering to deceive.<\/p>\n BBC Sport will have live text coverage of all the EFL action on Boxing Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Football can be a pretty transient business, out of the door at one club one week, in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-368983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}