Right , this blog post is a bit of a departure from the normal as I'm going to moan and possibly rant a little bit but there's something I just don't understand
If you are doing a job , say working in sales , and you don't meet the target for sales or even cost your company money then it is a fair assumption that you will be given the required number of warnings and then you will be sacked , given nothing more than a reasonable reference (most employers still do this even if you are a bit rubbish) and a pint down the pub on your last day
However if you are a football manager then these rules don't apply
You are given a contract , same as a normal job and then you try to manage your team into winning games , progressing through the various cups and hopefully moving up the league you are in , okay so far right ?
But if you lose games , lose the confidence of your players , crash out of the cup to a non league side (which will lose the club revenue) and generally give the impression that you don't really care about the job , the club or the fans then you should expect to be sacked the same as anyone else in any other profession
But no , football doesn't work like that
If a manager is sacked he gets a lovely little bonus , the rest of his contract brought out which can amount to quite a hefty sum
Some clubs have a clause whereby if the manager gets a new job within the time he's been paid off for then some money has to be repaid to the club , but not all and this just doesn't seem fair
He is getting rewarded well for doing a bad job , he's not going to resign as that would mean kissing goodbye to the money , even if everyone thinks and hopes that he will
I can't say that I understand this and I think it's unfair but hey what can I do about it , except maybe a naked pitch invasion to protest but thankfully I'm never going to do that!! Xxxx
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