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» SimonMelville - Corruption in the EPL

In response to Corruption in the EPL posted by BrentSedo:
Just to address the manager issue.

Yes, you're right it is a strange one. I guess that everyone in football knows that the lot of a manager is not a happy one and that they always get the blame and the elbow (and a pay-off, of course) when things go wrong.

When they jump ship mid-season they get pilloried but seeing as they get villified even more when things go wrong and they're only doing what players do, it's just accepted as an unpalatable fact.

As long as it's not happening to your club, you generally just find it funny (with a tinge of "there but for the grace of God goes us").

Clubs taking a manager under contract somewhere else do have to pay compensation but it isn't much and is rarely revealed.

Incidentally, Graeme Souness made a bit of a mess of Newcastle and is still out of managerial work since he left the Magpies in February. He has plenty of media work, so I'm not shedding many tears.

-- posted by SimonMelville