Scolari Sacked

Well here we go again, time to dish out the usual 'manager merry-go round' clichés as the news that Chelsea have sacked Luiz Felipe Scolari after a mere 36 games in charge. Chelsea decided to sack the World Cup winner, let me just repeat that for those who may not understand, THE MANAGER OF A WORLD CUP WINNING TEAM, as they felt a change was necessary in order to compete for trophies.

With Chelsea still not technically out of the premier title race just yet, a couple of slip ups for Man Utd will have them right back in it and are still in the Champions League and FA Cup, I can only presume the Carling Cup is what Chelsea were really after this season.

Scolari is now the forth manager to leave/ be pushed at Chelsea during the Abramovich era and I really fear for the next manager who is going to take over the realm. Claudio Ranieri finished 2nd and took Chelsea to the Champions league semi-finals during his reign, which apparently was no where near good enough and was sacked after. But to be fair the man who took his place was 'the special one' Jose Mourinho who easily had potential to be the greatest manager this country has ever seen, for the two seasons he was here. Let us also not forget Avram Grant of course. Well he never stood a chance no matter what he did while he was in charge but at least he got to finish his season, something Scolari surely should of had the chance to do.

This is just another bizarre case of not giving a manger enough time to build and manage a team that has occurred far too often recently.

Paul Ince and Tony Adams, both young new managers in the Premiership, lasted a total of 35 games between them managing Blackburn Rovers and Portsmouth respectively. Then there was the whole Kevin Keegan scenario at Newcastle where they went from a laughing stock, to regaining some pride restoring the clubs number one icon, to even bigger laughing stock when King Kev left again. Now the club are in the type of turmoil where their best player feels a move to Man City is an improvement.

Ahhh Man City. I feel a perfect link between them and Chelsea can be found here. Lets be honest what are the chances that Mark Hughes will still be manager of the richest club in the world by next season. This is a man who believes a team of Chelsea rejects (Wayne Bridge) and bloody irritating players (Craig Bellamy) are who you should turn to if you fail to buy Kaka. This remember is a team who have gone through 15 managers in the past 20 years, the same amount of time Man Utd have been with Alex Ferguson, who also risked facing the sack after a miserable first few years at United until he was given one last chance in an FA cup match against Nottingham Forest in 1989. They went on the win that match, then the FA cup overall and the rest is history.

So a manger had a tough first few years, team stuck with him and now they are the biggest team in the world at the moment. I doubt Gianfranco Zola of West Ham will get the same treatment.