Any manager in the EPL who presides over a run of 1 point from 6 games is a live candidate for the sack. Guido or his cheerleaders can’t have any complaints about his dismissal.
Like the reigning champions Leicester City, Swansea’s home form is key to their survival. They’ve won their last two home games against fellow strugglers Crystal Palace and Sunderland. They’re at home to West Ham on Boxing Day and then its Bournemouth up next at home.
West Ham’s Pedro Obiang SUSPENDED for Christmas after picking up his fifth yellow card of the season.
Guido had a terrible run of fixtures and while they only got 1 point their performances merited more. They were on the wrong end of a shocking penalty decision against City, they had the lead against both Liverpool and Chelsea but unfortunately couldn’t see it out and had difficult away trips to Champions Leicester whose home form has been very solid this year and also to Southampton who have only lost to Chelsea at home this season.
Their results from that spell is:
Hull (h) 0-2
Leicester (a) 1-2
Chelsea (h) 2-2
Southampton (a) 0-1
City (h) 1-3
Liverpool (h) 1-2
It was a tough run of fixtures and if you pick those games out in isolation then Hull is only really bad result where you’d have expected them to get something.
Guido saved Swansea from relegation last season to comfortable survival. He deserved a chance to turn around a tough run of fixtures. The fact that they failed to win in their next 5 games after his sacking and that they find themelves joint bottom near the midway point of the season would suggest it was a terrible decision by Swansea. Their performances have been awful, they have conceded 25 goals under Bradley in just 10 games and heavy beatings are becoming a regular occurrence.
Bradley is completely out of his depth.
Zlatan has scored again. Smashing first time cross on the run by Lingard and Zlatan guided a downward header into the corner. I may have been hasty in writing him off a while back.
You said all that last week. I’m not saying it was the right call to dismiss him but in the instant gratification culture of the EPL if you have a run like that, any manager no matter who he is and regardless of past services and achievements is at risk of getting the sack. The losses at home to Hull and to a then struggling Southampton side were the real damaging results. As you correctly said last week, Bradley now stands or falls on whether he keeps them up. Away form has been bad, but they have picked up at home winning their last two home games.
He’s had a run of fixtures much more generous than Guido had, overall there has been no real improvement in the side and if anything they have got worse, they have taken a couple of heavy defeats in the past month, their defending is an embarrassment which is the biggest worry of all for a side near the bottom of the table.
Guido deserved time to turn things around, the job he did last season owed him that time and the performances were generally decent in that poor spell this season. He wasn’t given that time and his sacking and Bradley’s appointment looks like it has been an unmitigated disaster. I wouldn’t be surprised if Bradley is sent packing before the new year.
What is the point of Howard Webb?
he’s the greatest referee of all time
Great goal by Zlatan.
Old Moysie is flying
Phil Jones is an embarrassment.
Considering his age Zlatan is having a cracking season
Those are interesting facts. Viera was world class, a superb player.
Wasn’t Keane well known for his performances in the big games? I’m surprised that he’s known as a flat track bully among the knowledgeable supporters that you would be conversing with throughout every day on the mainland. I’d only be chatting with flutes who’d be hanging around with two men and a dog at some tin roofed LOI ground.
You are spot on there, Roy Keane is unheard of amongst the ordinary football fan in Europe, if you went into a football pub in Munich, Barcelona or Rome, no one would know what you are talking about, Pat Viera has done it all, Keane is popular amongst Manchester Fans in Cork, Dublin and Manchester, that about it, even in Manchester he is forgotten about now and laughed at, a failure
Are you from Cork?
We’ve had our differences I won’t lie but I’m genuinely thankful for you letting me know this. I feel like an awful eejit now, I might have been in one of those pubs in Munich, Rome or Barcelona, theyre probably still laughing at me.
Arsenal 1 up after 5 minutes.
More embarrassing defending by City.
There’s going to be loads of goals in this
Indeed. I’ve always said it Gabriel = Goals Goals Goals