I would dispute that those managers actually 'got worse'

Their results did. I'm sure they were doing the same thing (why would you change a winning formula). But my contention is that a reasonably small percentage (probably 30% at most) of the outcome of any given game you play is down to what your manager does, so their apparent loss in performance is more likely down the other factors determining the outcome of games going their way for one spell and against you in another).
I am sure Lambert, for example, employed the same approach at Villa as here. But here all those other factors broke his way which made him look good and there it didn't which made him look bad. The truth is probably somewhere between the two.

Posted By: mr carra, Mar 7, 10:17:41