Sacking Your Manager

I sympathise, I really do Blackburn Rovers fans and Bolton Wanderers fans. Your teams are rubbish, and who can you have a go at?

1. The manager.
2. The board of directors.

The trouble is that both Blackburn Rovers and Bolton Wanderers are in financial trouble - nothing too major you understand, just a few tens of millions worth of debt (!). Sacking the manager, however bad they are, is an expensive business. Their contract needs to be paid up in full, and I believe that both men have a while to run on their individual deals. Not to mention their backroom staff. The costs mount!

Even if you can afford to sack the manager and pay him off, the new manager will demand a transfer kitty for January's transfer window in a desperate bid to stave off relegation, and if you struggled to pay off the last incumbent, where is the money going to come from for fresh transfer funds?

So you could get rid of the board of directors. These directors need to be quite well off as they will foot the bill if the club goes under, so Joe Average from 27 Acacia Road can't just turn up at the ground and demand a seat on the board, he'd need to buy his way in. And what with the current economic climate, the number of people who can afford to do this is getting increasingly smaller. Not just in Britain, but worldwide.

I'm sure that both will eventually be handed their P45s at some point this season, but don't be surprised if it's a last resort affair.

Wolverhampton Wanderers: you have no excuse with Mick McCarthy as you could well afford to get rid of him!