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MERRY GO ROUND

DOES CHANGING MANAGER ACTUALLY WORK? ONLY IN THE SHORT TERM, AND AT SOME COST, ARGUES AJ BECKER...

I RECENTLY spent some time in a coastal town, winning a comestible prize from an arcade’s 2p machine for the first time. It occurred to me that the act of expending spare change in the hope of causing coins and/or sweets to fall onto the collection tray is comparable to the gamble of an EFL club dismissing their manager mid-season: if it succeeds, those falling coins symbolise much-needed points, as a winning patina is cast over a hitherto lacklustre campaign.
Taking such a dec...

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