only the Swansea one is vaguely impressive

Given that I've already mentioned the Mourinho factor. Villa and Sunderland were both averaging 0.4 PPG when their managers were sacked (4 from 10 for Villa and 3 from 8 for Sunderland). Only one team in the whole of Prem history has gone through a whole season (though lots have over an 8/10 game stretch, which isn't a big enough representative sample) at that level so even if they had stuck with the manager it was bound to go up significantly. In fact if they had stuck with the manager and had a long s**t season, creeping to a hopeless 25 point total and relegation, they would still have seen 87.5% and 95.5% increases in PPG (this is actually considerably better than Villa have done in reality - I am pretty sure they would have more points now than they do if they had stuck with Sherwood FFS)

Posted By: mr carra, Mar 8, 10:31:38