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Being the boss gets more brutal

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IF ANYONE needed confirmation of how precarious life as a football manager can be, then events of the last week surely provided it.
It proved a bleak Sunday for Steve Morison (Cardiff), Wayne Brown (Colchester) and Paul Hartley (Hartlepool) as they were jettisoned by their clubs.
Morison and Brown’s credit in the bank from last season counted for little in the end. As has been noted elsewhere in these pages, former Norwich and Millwall striker Morison can count himself somewhat unlucky to have been dismissed by the Bluebirds with them lying 1...

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