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Here is the promised follow-up to the earlier post about the effectiveness of sacking a manager.
Remember that managerial resignations are common - as the study* by Dutch economist Bas ter Weel
shows, between 1986 and 2004 in the Eredivisie, about 40-50% of managers per season left, and many
of these were forced resignations.
It's easy to be distracted by some of the soap opera-like goings-on we see in professional soccer;
every year (week, day?), there's plenty of gossip and bad behavior on and off the field. Some of it
is even entertaining and interesting. But it's easy to lose track of some of the fundamentals of
the game when we pay too much attention to that sort of stuff.
MADRID, Spain — Atletico Madrid beat Real Mallorca 3-0 on Monday to maintain their hunt for a
European place and ease the pressure on coach Quique Sanchez Flores. Recent poor form including a
4-1 thumping by Hercules put Sanchez Flores in the firing line and there were rumours that if they
lost to Mallorca and [.
