Damien

Firing managers. Always the same solution.

I say it again. Look at Pardew at Newcastle (although that is again a bit iffy at the moment but not really his fault), Wenger at Arsenal, Rodgers at Liverpool, maybe Allardyce at West Ham now as well. You need to judge managers after a season that includes good and bad spells, hell I think you need more than a season but that might be too much to ask. Teams lose and they win, and they tend to do so in clusters as confidence and form ebb and flow. You can have bad seasons and good ones. Arsenal had some terrible ones but the players that Wenger persisted with have come good. Rodgers was in trouble last year but now Liverpool are after that 4th place and doing quite well at it.

You can't keep changing every time you hit that bad spell. You might get a boost but what do you do when the next bad spell comes? Fire the manager again? It's short-termism, it's expensive, and it doesn't allow the team to form and adjust to a certain style and confidence. It stops players developing as well as they as they get moved around, dropped and played at the whims of a succession of managers none of whom take the time to persist with promising but as yet unproven talent.

It's bloody stupid.