Postecoglou jumps to second in Sack Race after Spurs’ latest clown-car effort against Liverpool
Not one but two Premier League Sunday sackings have shaken the Sack Race up in grand style.
As Gary O’Neil and Russell Martin London bused their way to the exits at Wolves and Southampton respectively, the Sack Race spotlight falls on Julen Lopetegui but with a pair of big beasts also feeling the heat.
Julen Lopetegui
Stormed out of Wolves days before the season began a year ago and West Ham is a club that could test the patience of a saint. Really does have some of the very best attacking players outside the Big Six to work with, which hopefully reduces https://ufabet999.app the potential for huffing off at the first sign of trouble.
Which is just as well, because the first sign of trouble duly arrived. It’s all a bit feast-or-famine for the Hammers at the moment, with their last five Premier League results including a 4-1 thrashing of Ipswich and a very, very funny Ten Hag-dooming win over Manchester United but also absolute paddlings from Tottenham and Surprise Package Nottingham Forest, as well as a soulless goalless draw with Everton. It’s the sort of maddening run that could easily fray a character like Lopetegui.
The fact a sacking or huffing are equally acceptable in this market
Does make this feel like it could be a goer, given Lopetegui’s reputation. However, when apparently handed (ludicrously) two games to save himself he promptly won the first of them at Newcastle and then lost the second heavily to Arsenal. If that left the Hammers hierarchy on the fence, you’d have to imagine a 3-1 defeat at Leicester would get them back off it, but he lived to fight another day and got a very necessary three points against Wolves that has at the very least (and quite probably the most) delay the inevitable.
Ange Postecoglou
Just an endlessly fascinating manager of a wild football team. There is a growing sense that while it’s all quite fun (for neutrals at least) he really is just building at, it should be noted, huge expense the most ‘Lads, it’s Tottenham’ Tottenham team yet.