Sorry to read that news, although it was looking pretty inevitable. If he was going to be sacked, it should have been after their last game, not after only losing by the odd goal against a team top of the league, whilst playing 60 mins with 10 men. Presumably it would happened had they won yesterday?. You've had your share of bad luck but something had to change. Unfortunately it wasn't possible to change the dressing room, nor the owners, so it had to be the manager - again. Personally, I have a feeling that the team, or some of them (which is enough) felt they were too good to be managed by a L1 manager and resented it. Also, it is very difficult for a team on the slide, to attract the players needed to pull the club round (never mind the affordability). Therefore the only thing remaining was to get the team playing above their weight. Gareth, I thought, was the man to do that, even though I felt he was up against it from the start. Let's see what a new manager can do. Hopefully the owners can afford to get someone who will command respect from all the players. If they are good enough and give their all for the full 90 minutes, they should beat someone, even without a manager. So good luck to whoever the new manager is and I hope you manage to steer clear of relegation