Hey, remember that? Yeah, I was a little slack in updating our pickem game results after the
final. It's possible that I only just recovered from celebrating Osvaldo Alonso's cherry-on-top
goal. But there's no time like the offseason. . wait, what's that? The season still isn't over yet?
Whatever.
For much of the 90 minutes at Anfield on Saturday there was a feeling of unfulfilled excitement
and expectation.
The game, billed as the best in the World 24 hours earlier by sir Alex Ferguson, proved to be
one of those occasions where passions run high, but nerves and a failure to get a grip on the game
results in a highly-charged stalemate.
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.
