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WATCH OUT, WORTHINGTON! If Norwich start tumbling down the table, we could soon see Nigel Worthington down at the local job centre. Highly unlikely, but when results do go wrong who is to blame? Marc Dudley investigates. With managers going and coming quicker than the local bus services, it is not surprising that most managers in football today feel vulnerable of getting the sack if results start to go wrong. Some managers can feel safe for the time being, Arsene Wenger at Arsenal has just been offered a contract for life, and Sir Alex at Man Utd seems to never disappear. However, those managers who do get shown the door often wonder if they could have done a better job. The question is, is it the managers that should be blamed or is it the overpaid footballers who are the ones that we should point the finger at? The manager can only tell the team what to do; it’s the players who have to perform on the pitch. That is why in football (and most other sports) managers must have complete faith in the players to do the job, because if they don’t the manager knows that the fans will be asking for his head! One manager who most people felt sorry for (not the Sunderland fans!) was former Sunderland manager Peter Reid, who