ONE extraordinary season can be devastating to you as a manager. Because if you don’t live up to those standards, you get sacked.
Nobody questions whether you overachieved in the first place. Just look at the way Mauricio Pochettino has been treated by Spurs.
A Champions League final. Consecutive top four finishes. All on a budget a fraction of those around him. But a few bad results and suddenly all of that is forgotten.
It was a similar story with Neil Warnock, who left Cardiff City by mutual consent a couple of weeks ago.
What Neil did at Cardiff in 2017-18 was a mir...