Who would want to be a Premier League manager?
So the sack race gathered pace with two heads on the block in the same day.
Tony Adams and Luiz Felipe Scolari became the latest victims in this unrealistic modern football world where results are demanded yesterday.
Scolari has lasted less than six months as the chief at Chelsea while Adams only managed 16 games in charge of Portsmouth - how ridiculous.
Scolari chose to take Abramovich's ruble so more fool him because if Chelsea aren't winning the title then heads will always roll.
I have much more sympathy for Adams and the way he has been treated at Pompey.
The former Arsenal skipper was given the task of filling Harry Redknapp's shoes, which was always going to be a thankless task.
Redknapp had obviously seen the writing on the wall after he had spent all the cash building a side that lifted the FA Cup last season, so he jumped ship to a club that could promise him even more transfer funds. Let's se what happens when the money runs out at White Hart Lane.
Adams, who had hardly any experience after just a brief spell in charge of Wycombe Wanderers, was given the job and almost immediately his two best players, Diarra and Jermaine Defoe, were sold from beneath him for £35 million. No doubt to recoup some of the spending under Redknapp.
So, not only was he an inexperienced manager who needed time and patience from the board, he had hardly any cash to spend and was without his biggest stars. An impossible job for even the most experienced of managers.
His sacking was almost inevitable.
Add to Adams' experience the way Paul Ince was treated at Blackburn Rovers and it is no wonder there are hardly any English managers in the top flight.
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