Firing a manager is often more about maintaining the illusion of control | Premier League
By: Leander Schaerlaeckens | Published: 2026-11-10 19:03:04 | Source: www.theguardian.com
He just had to go.
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His position had become untenable.
He’d run out of time, out of credit, out of chances.
This time of year, we live in permanent peril of hearing some version of the above proclaimed with unshakable confidence. Some soccer manager has been fired and it is universally agreed that it had to be done, that there was no alternative, that the club’s hands were tied by…
