Fulham nerves crumble over Cookie

Posted by Andy Rose on April 11, 2007 4:03 PM

It's no good, I've tried all day but I still cannot understand why Fulham sacked manager Chris Coleman last night.

Cookie deserves a medal for the job he has done at Craven Cottage over the past four years not a P45.

His boss may have been Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed, but he was never once given the kind of transfer kitty his predecessor Jean Tigana once enjoyed.

Added to that Coleman lost star players virtually every season such as Louis Saha, Luis Boa Morte and Steed Malbranque and had to replace them on a fraction of what they were sold for.

And yet he repeatedly kept Fulham in the Premiership against the odds.

The side are currently four points clear of the relegation zone with five games to go and too close for Al Fayed's liking to missing out on upwards of £50m through the new television rights deal next season.

So why has he opted to appoint a manager with no Premiership experience in Northern Ireland boss Lawrie Sanchez?

Sanchez may have worked miracles with Northern Ireland but then wasn't Cookie already doing that every day he turned up for work at The Cottage?

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