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Next up, a decent manager from up East Lancs Road...
⚽️ When Ferguson finally won the title in 1993 and successfully defended it in 1994, it was after a lot of lows. The first 6 years almost all spent well below the 2ppg level, and dipped well below the 1pp of Relegation Form.
📊Quick Aside: The Post-Title Slump
While it’s more dramatic than what happened to Liverpool in 2025-26, this, as can also been seen in so many examples already...
📊Analysing the Form Patterns of the Best Football Managers in History:
(All graphs – whatever the number of years covered – run from left to right in game-by-game order, with a 19-game running average points per game (PPG).)
Step forward Bill Shankly
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down to around 1.2ppg – which I’ve labelled as Close To Relegation Form, with 1.0-1.1ppg Relegation Form; teams having been relegated with more than a point per game, including in 2025-26...
🔴Defending Rafa in 2004/2005, Amid Chaos, On Way To Istanbul Miracle
🎙️I spent the rest of Rafa’s tenure defending him, and it got really toxic in 2009-10, but again, not as nasty as it has for Arne Slot this season. And Rafa’s best overall season, by far, was in Year Five..."
."As Mikel Arteta tastes his first major success/es in Year Seven (after an early FA Cup), with increasingly boring football – you wonder if there will be any patience at Anfield for Slot, and Liverpool’s rebuild..."
"I hope the fans make it possible, as to me, they are a major barrier right now..."
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