Dunfermline: Manager Peter Grant sacked after five-month tenure
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Peter Grant lasted just five months as Dunfermline boss
Dunfermline Athletic have sacked manager Peter Grant after five months with the club winless and bottom of the Scottish Championship.
Grant replaced Stevie Crawford after relegation to League 1 with Alloa.
Saturday's 4-2 loss at Arbroath - after leading 2-0 - was a fifth league defeat in 12 and left the Fife club two points adrift of Greenock Morton.
Greg Shields and Steven Whittaker will take interim charge while a "robust recruitment process" takes place.
A statement from the Dunfermline board said: "We would like to place on record our thanks to Peter for his efforts, hard work and professionalism during his time at East End Park, and we wish him and his family every success in the future."
Dunfermline were billed as promotion contenders after a summer recruitment drive that included former Scotland midfielder Graham Dorrans, striker Nikolay Todorov from Inverness Caledonian Thistle and on-loan Rangers midfielder Kai Kennedy.
They progressed from the League Cup group stage, losing to Rangers in the last 16, but dismal Championship form and supporters' unrest has cost Grant his job.