Abstract
This is the way that Lawrie Sanchez described the challenges of building a football management career when speaking at a recent PFA and LMA football manager course. One day you might be riding high, successful and lauded by fans and media, but the next, success can slip away rapidly. A few bad results, eroding confidence, dismissal and then a hard climb back up the ladder. Whilst it may be part and parcel of football management, such ups and downs can be difficult to accept and often difficult to understand. In discussing the ups and downs of Peter Taylor’s football management career, the Observer (“Football Managers: The Panic Room,” The Observer Sports Monthly, 6 October 2002) commented how ridiculous decisions to sack a manager can be — Taylor was sacked by Leicester although six months previously when the club were fourth in the league and in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup everyone was saying he was the best manager out and touting him as a potential England manager. Six months later after a run of poor results he was out. In all of his other jobs up until then he had gone as a result of changing circumstances, the ebb and flow of fortunes which is all too common in football.
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