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Lambert critical of sackings

Aston Villa boss Paul Lambert believes the sackings of Brian McDermott and Nigel Adkins prove football is not necessarily a results business.

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onceavillain... (Aston Villa) says...

I think Lambert is spot on here. One look at the league table tells you that there is no such thing as 'Mid-table security' at this stage of the season this year. Whereas in previous years the bottom three much like the top three were pretty much confirmed at Christmas, this season any one of 8 or 9 teams could easily get drawn into the mix based on recent form and Reading or Southamptons form hasn't been any worse than a good many in the lower half of the table prior to the sackings. Recent history also confirms that 9 out of 10 sackings in this situation have resulted in the team being relegated under a replacement manager. If this is purely about making sound financial decisions and you convert this into business terms it means that the owner has chosen to adopt the weakest business model available in the hope that he will be the one man to reverse an established trend. Between now and the end of the season every team will play the same number of games knowing that they need the most points available and at the end of the day whether they stay or go will be down to grit and determination. Given that I live in London and I heard the bottle drop out of Anton Zingarevichs arse from here I'd say that's what's missing from the boardroom not the team.

Posted 8:43pm 17th March 2013

crowsy (Chelsea) says...

TBH this article is a load of tosh. If Reading and Soton were in mid table safety their managers were still be there, simples. Also we are told constantly now that football is a business so F365 would do you think happens in the world of business when the chairman thinks his company (Football Club) is in danger of making a loss or even worse making a loss and get relegated? It is the chairmans/owner of football clubs to take these decisions. Rightly or wrongly it is for them to make. Personally I think Reading were wrong. It looks like they might be going down but he should have a shot so why not leave the manager in place and sort it all out in the summer break instead of getting someone in who will have tons of stress. Let's say the new manager of Reading cannot keep him up, does he get the sack too?

Posted 9:50pm 15th March 2013

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