Save our Sven

• Posted by The Kippax Kid at 4:03 PM | add or read comments (0)

Okay, so the Kippax Kid hasn't blogged for ages, but I've been so incensed by today's shambles I couldn't get to my computer quick enough.
Sack Sven at the end of the season? Ridiculous. Okay, so the second half of the season's been a big disappointment after the elation of actually having a superb team early on in the campaign. But last season we only narrowly avoided getting relegated, and this year - okay, we've missed out on Europe after optimistically hoping for a Champions League spot at one stage - but it looks like we're comfortably going to finish eighth, and that's a huge improvement.
Sir Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger, David Moyes... how much proof do chairmen need that managers need to be given time to build good teams? Sven was in year one of a three-year plan, and he's achieved what he set out to in that first year - a top-10 finish.
Even Chelsea, with all their millions, couldn't buy instant success. Before Roman Abramovic arrived at Stamford Bridge the side had steadily been getting better and better anyway through the late 1990s, so they had that base anyway on which Abromavic's mega-bucks could build and improve.
Apparently the City players were incensed when Sven told them about his imminent sacking yesterday. Let's just hope it provokes a response that helps us win our final two games of the season and finish the campaign as strongly as we can.