David Moyes has pleaded for managers to get more time in the job as the victims of the early season sack race continue to mount.

The Everton boss has seen a string of his fellow managers being axed already this term, and has had to witness the troubled week of Peter Reid following Leeds' 4-0 thrashing at Goodison Park last weekend.

Reid has survived and Moyes questioned the policy of clubs making quick-fire decisions.

He said: "It is so early in the season, Peter Reid had some good results before last weekend. But clubs like mine had also not had a great start.

"We had picked up only one win before beating Leeds, if we had lost would it have been my name in the frame?"

Moyes takes Everton to managerless Spurs today aware of how fickle boards can be.

He said: "I do not think the current pressure so early in the season on managers is reasonable, but when we all become managers we all realise what happens.

"We all go into the job believing that one day we will all be sacked somewhere along the line. But now, for some reason, there is a glut of changes.

"We cannot all be successful at the same time, it is not possible. So if that is the case, managers are going to continually be sacked.

"The clubs who stick by their managers and allow them time and the chance to build, find that they get success. No more so than Alex Ferguson, just look at the success he is having now.

"It is difficult for all the managers, we all are in the same job and feel for each other.

"Some changes have been for managers deciding to move clubs at their own choice, but there have been quite a few sackings.

"There is continual talk about it and I am not sure whether that is because it is fuelled by the media."