Sacked in the Morning!

You are a football manager one bad run from the sack. Every week gives you two things. A result you did not choose, and a crisis you must answer in twenty-four seconds. The dressing room wants one thing. The board wants the opposite. The back page is already written either way. Results are not a button you press. They come out of your squad, its morale and its form — and those come out of the decisions you have been making for weeks. Back the rebel striker and the lads notice. Sell him and the terrace notices. You will find out which was right in March. WHEN THEY SACK YOU, YOU DO NOT START AGAIN You take a worse job. A smaller club, a thinner squad, a board with less patience and a ground with a hole in the roof. The career is the game, and it goes down at least as often as it goes up. Your record follows you: every club, every win rate, and the division graph nobody frames. FOUR PEOPLE…