CARDIFF CITY manager Malky Mackay has criticised "short-term" attitudes within football after seeing seven of his peers lose their jobs in the last week.

Martin Jol, Richie Barker, Dave Jones, Guy Whittingham, Sean O'Driscoll, Owen Coyle and David Flitcroft have all left their respective positions in the space of the last seven days.

And former Celtic player Mackay, whose own position has been under scrutiny since the loss of his former head of recruitment Iain Moody, has branded the casualty rate among managers and coaches "really poor".

"I was at an LMA [League Managers' Association] event the other night and [chief executive] Richard Bevan told the group that 27 coaches and managers in the last seven days had lost their jobs," said the Scot.

"That's 27 people going back to their families who don't have work anymore."

Mackay is particularly bemused by the failure to notice the success enjoyed by the likes of Sir Alex Ferguson, David Moyes and Arsene Wenger when trusted with long tenures.

"The short-termism has got worse," said Mackay, who has been in charge of Cardiff for two-and-a-half years.

"If you are looking at somebody in a job in the Premier League for two or three years, they are one of the longest serving managers, which is crazy. If you look at the likes of the top sides, Manchester United, Arsenal and Everton had managers in charge for a long period.

"Look at the stability and the strength of those clubs: having people at the top who have got the vision going forward on how the club should be.

"There is no coincidence that there is stability at those clubs."