Next Colchester United Manager Odds: Matthew Etherington now ODDS-ON at 1/2 to move from U21 manager to the first team at Colchester!

Matthew Etherington moves into odds-on favourite to take over as First Team manager at Colchester United

Former Premier League footballer and current Colchester United U21s lead coach Matthew Etherington is now the bookies favourite to be the next Colchester United manager with the job now vacant.

Colchester sacked their head coach Ben Garner this weekend after four successive defeats in the league saw them slide down to second bottom in the table.

Now though they need someone to take over who can guide them to safety in League Two this season with the U's looking to avoid relegation to League Two for the first time since 1992.

BetVictor's latest betting odds put Matthew Etherington as the 1/2 favourite to move from the club's U21's side to the first team spot with the club potentially keeping their next appointment in-house.

Etherington has been the U21's lead coach at Colchester United since June this year with his only full managerial role in football so far seeing him sacked by Crawley Town after just 32 days in charge.

Colchester sacked head coach Ben Garner this weekend after their 2-1 defeat to Harrogate

Colchester United decided to sack head coach Ben Garner after Saturday's 2-1 defeat to Harrogate left them second-bottom of the League Two table.

Garner had been in charge for 28 games and won just 7 of them after seven months in total in charge of the U's and their performances had been poor in recent weeks.

Losses in their last four games in a row includes a 5-0 thrashing at the hands of Forest Green last weekend which to many was the final straw but it got worse with Saturday's loss to Harrogate.

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The U's now 10/3 to be relegated from League Two this season

Betting odds continue to be available around relegation from League Two at the end of the campaign with Colchester the fourth favourites to go down this season.

Just the two clubs are relegated from League Two with Sutton, Tranmere and Forest Green all sitting above Colchester in the dreaded League Two relegation odds.

The latest odds put the U's as the 10/3 fourth favourites to be relegated with those latest odds suggesting a 23% chance of them going down at the end of the current campaign.