Nobody else would have let it get to this stage.
He'd have been nipped in the bud by early January 2024.
It's only by that law of large numbers and the football Gods belatedly giving us a break that we secured the Europa (marvellous beyond words) that we have a foundation for something far better than we could have hoped.
That some of the managerial options being floated are maybe not of the objective calibre of yesteryear should not in any way delay the right decision, or we will have chucked away an unexpected gift.

