leadership, were very much in the news at the end of December.
After a week of frenzied speculation on the back pages of the daily newspapers, Chelsea's billionaire owner wielded the axe to his football club's talismanic manager Jose Mourinho after a run of poor results that saw the reigning Premier League champions mired in a relegation battle. In the same week, Garry Monk, manager of Swansea City, also received his marching orders.
The sackings were another example of how powerful owners removed from the front line believe the best way they can influence problems on the field is by changing those they entrust to do the management. And in the football world, all the evidence suggests that owners are becoming quicker to act when results are poor. Just six months before Mourinho got the sack, he'd led the team to its first title in four years, while Monk had guided his club to its highest ever finish. The adage that you are only as good as your last result rings ever truer in football management.
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