The recent sackings show a number of issues within football at the moment.
The sacking of AVB has more to do with a conflict between the manager/coach and the Director of Football. Spurs have gone through 8 managers/head coach's in the past 12 years, the same period of time of having a DoF (I think, not been able to double check this as I'm at work and currently compiling this via a word document so it looks as if I'm doing work...god I'm bored.). Now that may not be that significant considering other clubs have gone through a similar amount of managers in a similar period of time, however the key telling point for me was the post match interview with AVB in which when asked if he was happy with his squad, he replied he was happy with our squad. Not I'm happy with my squad or I'm happy with the players I have chosen, but he was happy with our squad. If there are issues between the DoF and manager/head coach it's often the latter that leaves the club, the DoF has the chairmen's ear as it is his role to report on everyday going on's to the board. I'm not saying that's what happened at Spurs, but it wouldn't surprise me.
Steve Clarke's sacking, and in a way Owen Coyle's sacking at Wigan, highlights the next issue and that is fan pressure. It's a simple fact is that the majority, if not all, fans have knee jerk reactions. Some can see what they say at the heat of the moment was either ridiculous, stupid or downright moronic and retract those for a more sensible view, however there are a significant group in all supports which seem to carry on with those thoughts. For example, lets look at the amount of abuse aimed at Wenger at the start of the season, you had Arsenal fans climbing over themselves demanding the sacking of Wenger but these guys have gone very quiet recently. You can bet however that after the recent defeat to City they will have the bouncing, ready for another defeat so they can start again. Liverpool fans also last season had a vocal minority which were having a pop at Rodgers, however they have quietened down recently since Liverpool are doing pretty well at the moment. Football fans a fickle, but the only ones more fickle than fans are football chairmen who react to the loudest voices, sadly this is becoming or the more too common.
I'm seeing the same thing just now with my team Ross County, we had a fantastic season last year finishing in the top 6 at the first time of asking, however this season has been pretty tough. There have been calls from some demanding the manager to go......a manger who took us from the 2nd division to the top and in between got us to the Scottish Cup final beating Celtic on the way, yep sounds about right for the modern day fickle football fan. It's little wonder why the current state of football leaves me cold.
