Michael Appleton can’t really complain about losing his job as the head coach of Charlton Athletic.
Heading into the weekend, the Addicks had lost six of their last seven games in League One and won just once since the end of October.
Charlton have tried to establish what’s known as an MDT (multi-discipline team) with a head coach working below a technical director. That’s the way most modern League One clubs want to go and Michael will have understood that when he arrived in September.
As the head coach in an MDT, your job is to win football matches. It’s not to scout players or negotiate tr...