PANIC BOOT ROOMS
Five games into the Premier League season. It’s probably time to start panicking. Six teams have failed to win a match. Now, where were those spare bedsheets? For unemployed managers looking for further opportunities, probably time to accept requests to appear as a pundit, get the face back out there, even if that means having to fly to Doha. Admittedly, it’s not quite sacking season. Most clubs are more patient these days. The halcyon time of Peter J Swales wielding the axe on Peter Reid after 13 days of Manchester City’s 1993-94 season, despite a new contract, are in the past. Modern clubs are projects, moving forward together as stakeholders in symbiosis and all that jazz. If the suits are copper-bottomed against much being their fault, it’s still a bad look to have conducted a full and exhaustive recruitment process in which no stone was left unturned but you appointed the second coming of Villa-issue Rémi Garde.
