Watch Out Worthington

With managers going and coming quicker than the local bus services, it is not surprising that most managers in football today feel vulnerable of getting the sack if results start to go wrong. Some managers can feel safe for the time being, Arsene Wenger at Arsenal has just been offered a contract for life, and Sir Alex at Man Utd seems to never disappear. However, those managers who do get shown the door often wonder if they could have done a better job. The question is, is it the managers that should be blamed or is it the overpaid footballers who are the ones that we should point the finger at? The manager can only tell the team what to do; it’s the players who have to perform on the pitch. That is why in football (and most other sports) managers must have complete faith in the players to do the job, because if they don’t the manager knows that the fans will be asking for his head!

One manager who most people felt sorry for (not the Sunderland fans!) was former Sunderland manager Peter Reid, who

The manager must also find the right balance as well. If a manager does not listen to his players and becomes too much a dictator, results are bound to go wrong. Players will fell they are not being treated right, and this will affect their performance on the pitch. However, if a manager is too lenient and lets players get away with to much, then the players may think they can get away with anything, and this will make some players unhappy too, as they feel there is no one really in charge (This is what many think was the problem in Sunderland). Again, this will affect their performance on the pitch.

I must admit I do it myself when results start going wrong. You have to blame somebody, its human nature. Its only afterwards that I suddenly realise that it was actually something completely different that was the main cause. Take Leeds United’s sacking of David O’Leary, which had nothing to do with the fans. In the summer the Leeds board decided that Mr O’Leary was not doing a good enough job and he was shown the door, even though he had finished 3rd and 5th in the Premiership and had even taken the club to the Champions League Semi-Final. In came Terry Venables to improve results and has taken the club in the complete opposite direction. Sometimes people are to hasty when it comes to getting rid of the old and bringing in the new. Many of the Leeds players were not happy with the sacking of O’Leary and this would have affected morale in the dressing room. It’s the same story with Ipswich Town, Geroge Burley was given the sack after taking the club into Europe. Ipswich were relegated the following seaso

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Alex Ferguson, Europe Ipswich, Alex Utd, Terry Venables, Marc Dudley, Korea Japan, David O’Leary, Division Dizzy, World Cup, Neville Euro, it’s players, players players, start wrong, affect performance pitch, results start, wrong blame, real reason, players play, david beckham, results start wrong, world cup, players fault,