Sacking your manager after a 7-1 opening day defeat at home is understandable; sacking your manager and pretending the result has practically nothing to do with it is utter cockwash.
"In isolation the game isn't really connected with what we've done," Norwich chief executive David McNally said of giving Gunn the bullet (fnar, fnar). "It was a bad day at the office for us, it was not a freak result it was a very poor performance and one that we all struggled to get over.
"But in isolation it was one game, we've taken the decision to change the manager based on seven months not one game."
Erm... bollocks. True, Gunn failed to save Norwich from relegation in the wake of good Roedering, but presumably the board wasn't pinning the blame for the drop on him, or else they wouldn't have given Gunn the job permanently in the close season.
Since then, the side has played nine pre-season friendlies, with a record of 7 wins, 2 draws and no defeats. Those pre-season victories included 6-0, 7-2 and 4-1 wins, while one of the draws was a credible result against a Man Utd XI. Then came the 7-1 home defeat in the League to Colchester, before Gunn's boys salvaged some pride with a 4-0 tonking of Yeovil in the Fizzy Pop Cup.
So the only game Gunn has lost since the board gave him the job permanently is the one they claim "isn't really connected with what we've done".
If that's really the case, Gunn's got the best case for unfair dismissal since Avram Grant was given the chop for losing a penalty shoot-out.
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