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February 2008
Just about managing | Just about managing |
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The Coventry Evening Telegraph recognised this, fretting over the fact that Dowie was publicly sacked at 8am on the training pitch by a Ranson "sporting two thin lips and one big axe". It even went as far as a direct comparison of the relative thanklessness of the Newcastle and Coventry jobs, concluding that the midlands club was almost as bad, "but without the fun of wasting millions of pounds and enraging thousands of topless Geordies along the way".
At the top of this mini-table of managerial woe is a club with an unpopular former England captain as manager, a man who keeps getting jobs on account of his name alone. But for how much longer? Contenders to replace Dowie at Coventry include Richard Money, "the most qualified manager outside the Premiership" and Nigel Pearson, who walked out of Newcastle last week. The list also includes Graeme Souness, which hints that things might get even worse before they get better.
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