Baggies sack Di Matteo

I'm not his biggest fan but he has done a decent job and has taken them up and should have been given until the end of the season. This is a bit of crazy sacking in another way as well when you consider the lacking of managers available at the minute. Who will replace him? McClaren average at best. Martin O'Neill is the best manager available at the minute but would he go to West Brom? I myself don't think so.

I don't know too much about the Premier League, but in my opinion is only a game of wealthy people who own teams and treat them like toys. This is why I am against teams being bought by a single person, who can do whatever he likes with the team. If he wants he can move it to another city, if he wants he makes the team disappear. This are not representative teams anymore, this are puppets. But it is easier this way to make strong teams, than building them up from zero, from bringing up youths from the personal academy and making local people proud that somebody from them is representing them in the local team. As for managers, I would protect them more, I would never let a team fire a coach in the middle of the season.After and before the season is okay, but the person who was coaching the team at the matchday 1 should be the one to finish the season and then making a decision, judging after a long season's results.

I think that it is high time that the EPL has a sacking window for the managers. It is really a disgrace that managers can be sacked at any point in time without a say in the matter. I think like the players, the managers should be given time to do their work and they should be judged over that period and not get into a situation where they have to think of every next match as a Damocles sword hanging over their head. Cheers! Ram

I don't understand it at all. West Brom has done very well this season, especially in the beginning. They have been around the 10th position most of the rounds. robert Di Matteo has done very much for this team. He has made them believe that they cna play in the premier league, and even fight for the middle positions.

I'm not a WBA fan,but since they have a Romanian player in their squad,I wish they remain in Premier League.I watched a few of their games at the beginning of the season and I liked their playing,it was obvoius that Di Matteo was doing a fine job as a coach at that time,but then things started to go from bad to worse and WBA is once again in danger of going back to the Championship after only one season.I feel sorry for Di Matteo,but I think the decision was normal;something had to be done to get the team back on track and,as usual in these situations,the coach is the one who plays the ultimate price.Anyway,I'm sure Di Matteo is an excellent coach and he will prove it in his next adventure.

He did a good job but he had to go. He was not playing well and obviously the owners don't want the club to be relegated so they made this move.

I can't understand why they sacked him. He was doing a decent job. Maybe the management thought otherwise. It will be interesting to see who succeeds him.