Broken football clubs are not fixed by a new head coach.
Even Norwich City fans of a certain age are struggling to recall a time when the club was in such disarray.
The mire in which the club finds itself is cavernously deep, yet those in power appear to think by sacking Liam Manning, the ire of the supporters will be sated.
They are wrong, again.
I say again because wrong decisions, misguided assumptions, and bad communications are currently what they do best.
Manning had to go, of course he did, as would any head coach who had overseen such a record-breaking run of defeats, but even then those in power at the club prevaricated in the forlorn and nonsensical hope things would miraculously turn.
Only when it became clear this could never happen, and with City fans going full ‘pitchfork’, did they decide to call time on his tenure.
Minus the fan pressure, I suspect he would still be in post.
The failure of Manning, though, was merely a symptom of a much bigger malaise at the club, one that runs deep and which has been created, on an industrial scale, by a band of high-ranking, highly-paid, under-performing executives.
A once-respected club has been transformed into a national laughing stock.
Heard the one about Norwich City?
First, they appoint a rookie sporting director who is so far out of his depth it is rumoured he is suffering from the bends.
Then, after he has sacked three head coaches, two having been his own appointments and all having underperformed, they give him the job of appointing the next one.
Yep, you heard it right. Not only has Ben Knapper been tasked with appointing Manning’s replacement, but the club are being positively bullish about it.
Doubling down on terrible decisions is one of the few other things they are good at.
Norwich fans will throw their full support behind the new head coach, whoever it is, but, blimey, that person has an unenviable task on their hands.
It is a broken football club, one that needs infinitely more than a shiny new head coach to fix it.
