Christmas is under two weeks away and while the rest of European clubs are about to enter their winter break the Premier League soccer schedule is cranking up to the most intense part of the season, which leaves the players very little time to go and do their shopping.
It has been seven months and only fourteen games since Sir Alex Ferguson stood on the Old Trafford turf and told the listening fans to give the new man time. Applause rang out among the masses and yet this morning I see quite a few posts on social media saying Moyes out. One person even stating that Moyes wasn’t in his top 15 Manager shortlist because ‘He never won a trophy or qualified them for any European tournament’.
To be a football manager in today’s modern game is something that I think is becoming akin to a stunt man in the early days of Hollywood. No matter how good you are, someone else gets the plaudits. In Hollywood it is the film star of the piece to get the Oscar and in football it is the striker who scores the winning goal or defender who gets the last ditch tackle to secure the points who wins the fans hearts. The life expectancy in both jobs is about the same too with it currently widely accepted that no side will ever have the long term manager of Alex Ferguson or an Arsene Wenger. While in Hollywood the Stuntmen’s Association have managed to get the working conditions better for the daredevils the LMA have yet to slow the ever increasing spin of Managers revolving doors.
