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If Hodgson loses his next 4 games which is quite possible with their fixtures, Parish will be under pressure to sack him as well.

He'd have been better waiting until the run of tough games was over and then making a decision.

TBH it has echoes of our situation. We can't be hanging around until we play the "lesser" teams in our division to pick up points because there aren't any easy games. I know Boro are a top team but there aren't many teams in the Championship that look to be at our level so we have to find a way to win regardless of who we're playing. We have to average over a point a game just to survive.

How can anyone be judged on 4 games? Football has gone mad 

No goals in four games with the quality of players Palace have is poor. He was sacked after about 70 days at Inter as well so perhaps there is a bigger problem?

Fabians Right Peg wrote:No goals in four games with the quality of players Palace have is poor. He was sacked after about 70 days at Inter as well so perhaps there is a bigger problem?

Did you watch the Burnley game Fab? Palace totally dominated and deserved to win but were desperately unlucky due to a mixture of poor finishing from players like Benteke who you'd normally back to score and Chung Yong Lee's monumental cock up.
There may be a bigger problem, but I have to say I thought they were terribly unlucky not to get goals and points from the game and if they had we wouldn't be having this conversation.

You cite Palace's "quality players" but it was their lack of quality that got De Boer sacked.

wanderlust wrote:

You cite Palace's "quality players" but it was their lack of quality that got De Boer sacked.

If you believe the rumours then the players didn't want to play for him, didn't like the training and what was being asked of them.

Even quality players can down tools and deliberately under perform, look at Chelsea the year before last.

Wonder if this ever happened to Tommy Banks?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4879844/Real-Madrid-s-Marco-Asensio-shaving-injury.html

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Natasha Whittam wrote:I've told you, I will never click on of your links again. I'm being bombarded with slipper adverts whenever I go on eBay or Plenty of Fish.

Go on. It involves leg shaving.And you could do with a trim yourself.

Redknapp sacked by Birmingham

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41296238


Crazy move - they've just let him sign FOURTEEN players - what if the next man doesn't rate them?

They should have given him at least another month to let them settle in and start to perform well.

They've all spent oodles of money and no doubt the chairchappies and owners are now crapping themselves in case they get relegated with all the millstone expense around their scrawny necks. Going to be a lovely bunfight after Christmas.

Sluffy wrote:Redknapp sacked by Birmingham

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41296238


Crazy move - they've just let him sign FOURTEEN players - what if the next man doesn't rate them?

They should have given him at least another month to let them settle in and start to perform well.

Hoping this is good news for our chances of survival.

wanderlust wrote:
Hoping this is good news for our chances of survival.

I suspect it's quite the opposite. New manager fever will no doubt push them up the league.

Rooney returns to United with Everton - will he score - ex-players do seem to have that habit!

1-0 to United already.

What a goal by Valencia

4-0 in the end, they look like the Utd of the Fergie years, even missing Pogba.

They've played no one yet. They'll come unstuck against City, Chelsea and Chorley.

England ladies manager sacked.

Mark Sampson has been sacked as England women's manager following evidence of "inappropriate and unacceptable" behaviour in a previous role.
The Football Association says that last week it was made aware of the full details of safeguarding allegations against Sampson when he was Bristol Academy boss in 2014.
But a 2015 FA assessment found Sampson did not pose a risk.
Sampson was also cleared this year of wrongdoing following discrimination allegations made by England players.

more here -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41326806


What I don't understand is that he's already been cleared several times for the stuff that he's now been sacked for?

And the £80,000 hush money they paid out what was all that about?

All seems very odd to me.

If he did something wrong he should have been sacked at that point - but as he wasn't and nothing new has changed why is he being sacked now?

OK I know the FA claim they have only just got the full details of a previous incident - but surely the FA who cleared him to be England manager must have had access to full details in order to clear him in the first place.

It all seems to have been a witch hunt against him in the end.

Reminds me very much of something similar that happened at British Cycling a year or so back - a very successful coach having to quit over a PR storm from a woman he deemed not good enough to win a medal - and certainly on that point he was absolutely right.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/38245106

There's no smoke without fire they say but if either of them were such a 'bad um' how the hell did they get to the top of their respective sports - particularly in this day and age where everybody knows their rights and no one is slow in putting in a claim if things aren't going their way.

The 'Women in Sport' organization are reviewing their position in regard to him being their patron.

boltonbonce wrote:The 'Women in Sport' organization are reviewing their position in regard to him being their patron.

Can't blame them.

If he's done wrong he should go - and rightly so.

The thing I can't quite get my head around at the moment is that all of the allegations against Sampson were investigated and he was given the green light - Barristers being involved and all that.

All seems very odd to me - if he was guilty, then why was he cleared - and if he was cleared why is he sacked now?