Why football management is no different to any other form of management

Inside World Football

The season of good will and cheer is always the season of the sack and the managerial changes we are seeing in the Premier League should come as no surprise. However Alan Pardew's decision to leave Newcastle for Crystal Palace has raised many an eyebrow. The argument, much touted on twitter and the airwaves, is why move from a great club to one whose ambition can be never higher than to hope for a sustainable place in the Premier League? And even this, given Palace's current position, must seem like fantasy.

However such speculation shows that discussion of managerial changes in football is driven by unrealistic fan expectations leading to a lot of misleading publicity when, in essence, a manager changes clubs for most of the same reasons we change jobs, money of course but also getting back to ones roots or doing a job which is likely to be more manageable and, therefore, more satisfying.[image error]