2) Quique Sanchez Flores – Watford
This was the most unjust and absurd sacking of this season—and a look at the table would make one understand why. Newly promoted Watford hired former Atletico Madrid manager Quique Sanchez Flores to lead them in the Premiership.
It worked wonderfully well in the beginning as Watford were one of the toughest teams to beat in the first half of the season.
However, winning only 8 points in the last 10 games saw them slip to number 13 in the table. That is one way of looking at it—and that is perhaps how the board saw it. The other perspective would be: a newly promoted club that signed 16 new players and a new manager and yet finished at a formidable number 13 spot and never lingered around the relegation zone for even once this season.
Sadly, however, the Hornets’ board took a blind eye to the latter viewpoint and sacked him at the conclusion of the season—a decision that befuddled almost everyone.
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