Promoted from within, tasked with overhauling a sluggish playing style, struggles with striking a balance between idealism and pragmatism, then sacked at the first international break. But enough about Paul Trollope, let's instead talk about the dismissal of Steve Morison.
Cardiff have sacked so many managers in recent years that you can draw parallels with each of them. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Neil Harris were the nice guys, but neither quite managed to apply their vision. Mick McCarthy was Neil Warnock without the charm and Russell Slade was an even less popular appointment than Harris.
Morison was probably the most complicated of the lot. He was Cardiff’s Brexit manager, in that he pretty much divided the room in half. The split was between those that like their manager to take no prisoners and tell it like it is, versus others that think the manager should show a little tenderness on occasion and represent the club in a positive, inclusive manner.
