Nobody must have informed Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis about Einstein’s proclamation that the definition of stupidity was repeatedly doing the same thing and expecting a different result. Except, for the time being, that would be tantamount to closing the stable door when the horse has already bolted.
Because, you see, the grumpy Greek has only gone and done it again. That is to say, shafted another manager before giving them a reasonable amount of time to put a decent imprint on the team. Thus, Sean Dyche has fallen on the same sword as Colin Cooper and Ange Postecoglou and Nuno Espirito Santo.
What did any of those three do wrong? Your guess is as good as mine. Especially when one considers that, at the time of typing, the City Ground outfit are still engaged in European competition. Granted, they were knocked out of the FA Cup by Wrexham. But for one thing, there’s absolutely no shame in that given the extraordinary progress expedited by the Welsh club in the last half decade or so.
And for another, you’d have thought that, in the odd way these things sometimes work, that having one less competition to compete in would actually be of benefit because surely Premier League survival has to be the priority to exceed all others. A tall order for any smaller club at the best of times, but now consider that the reds have been devoid of the services of their best forward Chris Wood for an elongated period of time.
Whatever about Forest, it’s hard to know exactly how Tottenham Hotspur found themselves in a similar conundrum, or multiples of them to be more accurate. What is even more bizarre inter-link there appears to be within the two clubs. As in, Ange Postecoglou went from Spurs to Forest, Nuno doing likewise, and now that Thomas Frank has gone from Tottenham, it wouldn’t be a major shock by any means had the Greek money man plumped for the deposed Spur to fill his latest self manufactured vacancy.
At this point, it will be admitted that I’ve never heard of the guy the Robins have hired, in typical shotgun fashion. But, no matter who ends up being Tottenham’s next victim, eh, manager, Forest and them seem to be of the same mindset, using the same methodology but neither are manufacturing solutions to their respective problems.
Einstein must be scratching his head!
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