When in doubt, sack the manager!

As a life-time follower of the consistently underperforming Wolverhampton Wanderers, I can empathise with the supporters of Newcastle United, who have not tasted what they would consider success for more than 50 years. At least they are in the Premiership and looking reasonably safe for another season - would that Wolves could say the same! So does changing the manager really make any difference? Allardyce it seemed to me was doing the best he could with the squad he'd got, and did have positive plans to try and improve matters. Whoever takes over will face the same problems. The difficulty is that the only managers who have the sort of track record that Newcastle are looking for are unlikely to be interested, and those that might be interested are not the sort to inspire confidence that they could make any significant improvement.