Roberto Di Matteo on "Gardening Leave"

[Blue Toy]

According to SSN.

Relieved of his coaching duties and placed on gardening leave.

[HeyMark]

Madness, their on a bad run atm, but they're still playing good football. I thought in the 2nd half they were the better team yesterday

[Bianchi on Ice]

Someone is pulling his strings

[Alioune DVToure]

Sad if true. Nice bloke and good manager.

That's now two managers of promoted teams sacked this season whilst there teams aren't even in the bottom three. What do the boards of these clubs want?

[PoC]

Sad if true. Nice bloke and good manager.

That's now two managers of promoted teams sacked this season wilst there teams aren't even in the bottom three. What do the boards of these clubs want?

I'd say wba want fat bastard allardyce

[Crossie]

They were 6th at one point, total madness.

[Fesan]

Queue Big Sam...

[craigmcfc]

Queue Big Sam...

What a big queue that would be

Madness in my opinion. Genuinely nice bloke who gets his team to play good football

[Tokyo Blue]

Ridiculous. And if you are going to sack your manager, this is not the time of year. Before the transfer window or at the end of the season perhaps but not now.

[Dubciteh]

abs ridiculus, hope they go down for that!what do they expect? good football some decent results, obv a couple of bad ones but all sides have had bad results this season,he has spent fuck all too and has done miracles, this sort of thing winds me up. he started at the bottom unlike some other ex players and has done a good job everywhere, madness.

[Craig B]

Pure madness - they must have someone lined up and I suppose you wouldn't bet against it being the 'expert' Big Fat Sam. He did actually play for West Brom and was their assistant manager for a time in 1989 - although having said that he's a Wolves fan.

[kennyboy]

we are ruin football..

[LookMumImOnMCF.net]

Unbelievable

[ryanmcfc]

The Wigan result did him in. Sounds like he may have been gone no matter what happened yesterday.

[Im_Spartacus]

Pure madness - they must have someone lined up and I suppose you wouldn't bet against it being the 'expert' Big Fat Sam. He did actually play for West Brom and was their assistant manager for a time in 1989 - although having said that he's a Wolves fan.

I always thought he was from the North East and supported one of those teams

[aaron bond]

Ridiculous. And if you are going to sack your manager, this is not the time of year. Before the transfer window or at the end of the season perhaps but not now.

This sums it up.

Why didn't they do it when a new manager could have brought in some of his own signings?

Poor decision in my opinion. WBA are in a relegation battle but what else did the board expect? They haven't exactly spent millions. They're currently out of the bottom 3 and generally try to play good football. As it stands, I'd expect them to stay up.

It's almost as poor as the sacking of Hughton.

[HeyMark]

Gordon Strachan to be the next west brom manager

[Fesan]

Funny how managers can get the axe for doing too well...

As someone said they were 6th at the start of the season, now they've lost alot of games and are at the bottom. I think that if Di Matteo had won one game now and then and they had the same table position as they do now he'd still be in charge. They all know that staying up is all they can hope for so why sack him as long as they are not down and out? I mean he is the same guy who won all those games earlier...

[ant london]

How many managers have been sacked in recent years after losing to City? Quite a few

Di Matteo is the most unjust

Big Fat Sam was the sweetest

[Esky]

To play devil's advocate - 13 losses from 18 and their next two games are at Wolves and West Ham. Time for a change?

Still though, I liked Di Matteo; he played nice football and took points from some of the best sides in the league.

If 16th isn't a successful season for anyone involved with that club then they're clearly deluded. Got to wonder what kind of season the owners had in mind.