I don't see how a season in which we've been terrible in so many games, looked like we had no clear gameplan and went five steps backwards would be saved in any way by an FA Cup win.
It takes a badly run club to reach the middle of May without...
I can understand why people see what happened last night as "theatre", but you do realise that those Israeli defence systems were never tested against anything close to this? Even with the support of the USA, Britain, France and Jordan - there...
Or maybe they thought that he can get us there and that replacing him will not really change much. Maybe they just judged it badly.
Again, with them new to the club, learning things and lacking the football people who are supposed to actually...
The members of staff who left already had designated replacements and their departure probably didn't have huge effect. Replacing the manager is far bigger, especially if you're planning to base your work on several people (Ashworth, etc) but...
Had the new owner been around for a while, there would have been no excuse. But under the circumstances, I can understand why he didn't want to rush to any sort of change within weeks of his arrival.
Yes they could have, but with the new people not on board and clear replacements not being around, I have no problem with it.
Doing things right long term is more important than maybe - maybe - getting CL football this season.