Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Nicky Hayen becomes the second Championship manager to be sacked this season after Preston's Paul Heckingbottom. Head coach Nicky Hayen has been sacked after just 14 games in charge at Burnley following a poor start to the season. Hayen's final match was Saturday's 4-1 defeat at Lincoln City, as the hosts came back from 1-0 down to emphatically condemn the Clarets to a sixth defeat of the.