Leeds decision to sack Marcelo Bielsa highlights football's short-term nature

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On May 7 2016, I watched Andrea Bocelli serenade the Leicester crowd as their team were crowned Premier League champions, having pulled off one of the great sporting upsets.

Manager Claudio Ranieri proudly paraded the trophy to all four stands while the supporters sang his name with unconfined joy.

The club owners came on to the pitch and celebrated with their manager. Everything seemed perfect.

I jokingly said to the group I was watching it with, “They will sack Ranieri next season!” – oh, how we laughed. Nine months later, Ranieri was gone, and I realised that nothing in the hiring and firing of managers would surprise me again.

In November 2019, Tottenham sacked Mauricio Pochettino after he had guided them to four successive top-four Premier League finishes and the Champions League final.

I wrote a column when speculation about his sacking was beginning, urging Spurs and Poch to find an amicable way to end their relationship before things turned sour.

But as the weeks went by, results didn’t improve, and he was given the boot.

Now it’s the turn of Marcelo Bielsa to pack his bags, despite him taking Leeds from a struggling Championship side to a ninth-place finish in the Premier League in just three seasons, ending a 16-year absence from the top flight into the bargain.

Bielsa parting company with Leeds feels like the