I've no doubt that sacking a decent manager during a patch of bad form is stupid. But I'd much rather see chairmen developing common sense and giving them a realistic amount of time than see a "managerial window", it seems ridiculous to me. It's the chairman's club, he should be intelligent, and he should be able to do what he wants. I'd rather see a compulsory chairman IQ test than a "managerial window".
Stuart Pearce seems an awful manager, and so does Gareth Southgate. There's no shame in that, they were great players, but if they got sacked (maybe give them an entire season) I'd be pleased for the teams that they're currently managing. But for KNOWN managers, managers who have been in the game for a longer period of time and who obviously know what they're doing, they shouldn't be sacked as soon as they sometimes are. But the chairmen shouldn't react so much to the crowd's expectancy to win every game - otherwise Alex Ferguson would have been sacked a few years ago, I'll never forget watching Match of the Day and seeing him get booed by the home crowd, after the trophies he's won there. The crowd don't deserve the guy as their manager.
Of course, I realise that when times change and there are no "known" managers left there would be a problem. Maybe managerial contracts should have regulations applied to each one so that managers are forced to stay on for at least a season. Maybe, I don't know... I just think this window idea is laughable.
If anyone else had suggested it I might have taken it more seriously...
