Tam McManus makes Lee Johnson DAVID BRENT comparison as Hibs Hokey Cokey boss is only buying himself time

Close your eyes and listen to the following words.

“You will never work in a place like this again. This is brilliant - fact! Yeah? And you’ll never have another boss like me. Someone who’s basically a chilled-out entertainer, yeah?” Lee Johnson’s post-match chat with his players after that Motherwell defeat or a classic line from David Brent? The Hibs fans have had it with their manager and I’ve been reading comments for weeks with him being compared to Ricky Gervais’s alter-ego from The Office.

Maybe a bit unkind and I’d compare his current troubles to Black Lace and the hokey cokey he’s been playing ever since arriving at Easter Road. One week he’s in, the next week he’s out, in, out, in, out, you shake it all about. That’s what it’s all about. After Sunday’s Fir Park debacle he’s currently out with the Hibs fans but if they get through in Europe on Thursday night against Luzern then he’ll be back in. If he doesn’t he should be permanently out.

Even if he gets a stay of execution in Switzerland, Hibs have Raith Rovers at home in the second round of the League Cup on Sunday and it’s the definition of a ‘banana skin’. The scenario of former Hibs player Ian Murray coming back to his old ground and sticking the knife in is very real, he’s even being mentioned on message boards as Johnson’s possible successor.

That’s Hokey Cokey life of Johnson, in on Thursday and out by Sunday. It’s a slow and almost inevitable painful death of a managerial reign. Next up are Raith, Livingston, Aberdeen, Kilmarnock, St Johnstone and Dundee and it’s a great run of games to try and change the picture at the club but then October sits ominously on the horizon. Hearts away, Rangers away and Celtic at home, all in a row but will he still be in