“Sack” is a particularly British word. Used little, if at all, in North America, outside the circles of the New World’s Premier League acolytes.

It means “to fire”. To dismiss. To give the boot. To make redundant. (Oops; another Britishism.)

I’m not sure either league is aware of it, but I sense an international soccer sack race heating up between England and the UAE.

The UAE soccer league fires coaches like the rest of us throw a light switch. “Things getting a bit dark? Fire the coach.”

The Al Shaab club last week fired their Romanian coach, Marius Sumudica. Shaab are last in the league, and haven’t been good all season, so maybe this firing actually made some sense. (And to look at Sumudica’s wiki page, which indicates 14 coaching jobs since 2006, he is not a guy you expect to last long.)

However, it is the seventh firing of the current UAE season — and the league has only 14 teams.

Yes, half the coaches already are gone, and the league season began in mid-September, or about a month after the Premier League kicked off. Seven guys didn’t last past Week 6, barely a third of the way through the season.

Anyway, when Sumudica went down, that gave the UAE a comfortable 7-3 lead over the Premier League, when it came to firing coaches.

But the Premier League rallied sharply over the past few days.

West Bromwich Albion canned Steve Clarke late Saturday, and then Andres Villas-Boas, former boy wonder, was dumped by Tottenham today.

Suddenly, the UAE lead is down to 7-5!

The Premier League is only slightly less rash about dumping coaches, and it has one big advantage over the UAE — 20 teams to 14, here.

I have a sneaking suspicions the Premier League will wind up dumping more coaches than will the Arabian Gulf League, when all is said and undone.

The only way I see the UAE winning this trigger-pulling competition is if a couple of the clubs fire at least two coaches — which is not unprecedented, by any means. If memory serves, Sharjah made four changes in 2011-12, involving four men (one of them hired twice), the year the club was relegated.

But can we count on that? Can impatience here keep pace with that in the Premier League, where the money is far bigger and the pain of missing a Champions League berth (or being relegated) is monetarily enormous?

I’m paying rapt attention.