LONDON — It is not yet Halloween, but already some managers in England’s Premier League look haunted and spooked in their jobs.
Tim Sherwood and Gary Monk, relatively new managers at Aston Villa and Swansea City, went into the weekend hearing stories that their jobs were on the line. And their clubs did nothing to dispel the speculation.
Meanwhile, José Mourinho — who recently almost dared Chelsea by boasting “If you sack me, you sack the best manager you ever had” — lost a game once again, along with a little more of his aura of invincibility.