This week I’m gonna talk about football managers. Management of any sort is not for the faint hearted. Football management takes this to the next level. I think the vast majority of people have this perception that most good soccer players can adapt relatively easily to management. This is certainly not the case.
Results are key. Football managers are always under intense pressure and most run the risk of being sacked by the team performing poorly over a short space of time. This is entirely true in most cases except for managers who have been at a club for reasonable amount of time and has brought success whether it be trophies or promotions.
I think QPR’s decision to sack manager Neil Warnock last week was a truly awful one. Do they remember what position the club was in before he joined them. Warnock joined QPR in March 2010 when they were struggling in the Championship. He managed to avoid relgation comfortably that year and went on the following season to win the Championship and gaining automatic promotion to the premier league. This was a league that the club hadnt partcipated in 15 years and it only took Warnock 14 months to complete this. Now they have decided to let him go because of the recent 8 games. Surely you give the man who guided you promotion within such a short space of time a full season to prove himself at this level.
For the past weeks there has being mounting pressure for Blackburn manager Steve Kean to resign. Fans have organised demostrations before league games and have continued these chants to their home matches. I believe these chants in the stadium to be very unfair to the manager and more importantly to the team. Blackburn are in for right battle this year to avoid the drop and fans chanting towards the managers departure is not helping the cause one bit. The team needs all the support they can get to pick up points and this must be very frustrating for the players themselves. David Moyes, the Everton manager was in attendance at one of their home games in recent weeks said that he had to leave at half time because of his surprise and disgust over the fans treatment of their manager. Keans team went to Old Trafford on New Years Eve and pulled off the shock result of the season by beating Man United. Kean is adamant he is staying but if he cant win over the fans sooner rather than later it could have major repercussions on the teams league position. Therefore I think Kean should step down if the ongoing saga continues and shows no sign of being resolved.
Who do people think wil get the next sack?
Odds on the next Premier League Manager To Be Sacked –
15/8 – Steve Kean
4/1 – Owen Coyle
9/2 – Alex McLeish
7/1 – Andre Villas-Boas
8/1 – Mick McCarthy
12/1 – Roberto Martinez
20/1 – David Moyes
20/1 – Roy Hodgson
20/1 – Martin Jol
I honestly don't know if Keans recent run of wins is a fluke or what but at the same time, he doesn't deserve to be treated like that by the fans, it's an absolute disgrace. Nearly worse was the treatment of Roy Hodgson by Liverpool fans. In a 27 game comparison with him and Kenny Dalglish, there's no a whole lot of a difference yet King Kenny is like the second coming or something. We'll see how it pans out with his current run of form but I can't see Liverpool taking any actions to get rid of him for a long time yet and certainly not with the fever they kicked Hodgson out with...
ReplyDeletei don't really know much about football!! but I'm gonna go with steve mean to be sacked!!!! also just wondering....will we ever call it soccer instead of football, do u think???
ReplyDeleteI think Keane could pull off miracles this season and the second he slips up once again the Blackburn fans will be right on his back all over again. He's only delaying it by winning they still want an excuse to have him gone.
ReplyDeleteAlso, did you see the Barca and Real game last night? Disgraceful behaviour from both teams overshadowed what should have been two of the best teams in the world playing some great football. Maybe a blog post about the play acting and diving aspect of football in the future?
I agree with your point about Kenny Dalglish. Its gonna be very hard to get rid of a manger labeled by the fans as a King. With regards the football comment, I reckon its always gonna remain football. I know we call soccer here but the bigger leagues use the term football so it's hard to get aay from that. Ya Kean is only buying time really by winning a couple matches here and there. It looks like the fans will never be behind him fully. Ya this play acting and diving is really takeover, at times its so funny to watch how ridiculous they look. They should really look at other sports such as rugby and the hits they get and carry on as normal. I think they should follow the rugby counterparts and have only the captains talk to ref instead of numerous of players shouting at the ref over every incident and decisions.
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