At one end is Gary Neville. At the other is Sir Bobby Robson. Sadly for Scott Parker, we now know where he sits on the scale of British coaches who tried their luck in a foreign land.

Parker was sacked by Club Brugge on Wednesday after just 67 days and 12 games in charge.

He was only the third Englishman to manage a club abroad in the Champions League in the past 25 years, after Neville at Valencia in 2015 and Robson at PSV Eindhoven in 1998.

Yet a 5-1 loss to Benfica in that competition – 7-1 on aggregate – was the last straw.

Brugge’s statement was brutal. There was no ‘we thank Scott for his efforts’ or ‘we wish him all the best’ or any of those old cliches we tend to see in these announcements.

Alongside Neville at Valencia – 10 wins in 28 games. Alongside David Moyes at Real Sociedad – 12 wins in 42 games. Alongside Tony Adams at Granada – zero wins in seven games and some dodgy dancing in training.

These bruising experiences can go down as a stain against your name.

Rarely can Neville offer his opinion on another manager’s shortcomings on Sky Sports without someone, somewhere, on social media furiously bashing their keyboard to remind him of how he fared.

But if nothing else, Parker deserves credit for giving it a go. It isn’t easy to take this plunge. It takes them out of their comfort zone. It tests them in an alien environment.

It removes them from the cushty English merry-go-round that never stops spinning back home.

Sometimes, it works. Like Robson at PSV and Porto and Barcelona. The great Sir Bobby won trophies wherever he went, albeit not a second season in charge of Barca.