Twenty Managers, Twenty Different Ways to Lose the Job

Opinion

Some will hang on. Most will, at some point between August and May, feel it tighten. The promoted managers will be told patience, and given none. The mid-table managers will be told stability, and judged on a single bad month. And the manager who wins it all will spend the following summer being asked, politely, whether he can possibly do it again — which is the only reward football offers for success: a harder question.