Had to be done. It's a 2 horse race up there and whoever is in second is under the cosh, nevermind being 8th or whatever position he's got them in.
That will be one delighted man, straight into the car and back down to another job here, given by another gullible chairman. Got some front that lad, you have to admire him for it.
Yes, the irony that every single pundit is an unemployed manager telling the other managers where they're going wrong "And we're lucky to have Graham Potter on the couch today ..."
I always think that managers and coaches can be unlucky, go to the wrong club at the wrong time, be victims of politics. They can burn out or get worn down by it, so I can be a bit generous to some if they go into punditry as a break or a change. I came give a bit more slack if a manager has been fairly successful and just has a blip or two on their record. I can even forgive those that have it a try but it didn't work out so long as they don't try to come across as trying to tell someone what to do, management isn't for everyone. I know most will do a bit of punditry as a way of keeping themselves in the public eye, letting clubs know they're available because otherwise you can be very quickly forgotten about. It still doesn't mean I accept what they say as gospel, though. But for me it's the serial failures, who achieved nothing of note in their career, or the ones who never tried that boil my piss. I go back to Mark Lawrenson, a serial failure of a coach. A coach employed by the mags to tighten up their defence and actually made it worse, sacked by every club that employed him as they were worse when he left than they were when he arrived. Yet for years he pontificated as an "expert" on MOTD telling other coaches what they were doing wrong. I'm sure he was only employed because he was Hansen's mate. I think he was genuinely the first, but there's others that have followed since then. As a kid in the 80s, pundits were generally managers or ex players that had achieved something and gave their opinion on a game or an incident, they didn't go around claiming to be right on everything and knowing what the manager did wrong. (Ok, Clough did, but that was more of an act playing up to his media image than anything else, I've heard stories of him being much more thoughtful when he wasn't on camera, but even then he could back up his opinions with what he achieved as a manager compared to some of the numbnuts today).
