it was on the cards http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42332958 Mark Hughes has been sacked as manager of Stoke City, just hours after the club's FA Cup third-round exit at the hands of League Two side Coventry City.
Desperate timing from Coates, they'll have to move so very quickly to make a dent in Jan transfers that they'll probably get it wrong.
Not a surprise at all. One of the things that always strikes me about Hughes in his interviews is his total inability to accept that they got things wrong or that they didn't deserve to win. Ironically today's press conference was probably one of the very few exceptions. I know quite a few managers have this tendency in public statements, but something about Hughes made him come across as genuinely believing it. It would have done my head in if I was a Stoke fan. Then again, just being a Stoke fan would do my head in when I saw the other neanderthals that I was sitting next to.
Typical of modern football. You get that sort of run if results you are a gonna. Gone are the days where you get time. Players are not loyal either and they want you gone, the media are baying for blood, in the end the chairman has little choice.
