After one of the worst ways to treat a manager you could imagine, the Swans topped it today by dismissing Francesco Guidolin on his 61st birthday and replacing him with Bob Bradley, previous manager of both the US and Egyptian national teams.

It had long been speculated that Guidolin's future at Swansea City was to be a short one but to make the decision on his birthday to remove him from the role just sums up the classless and crass way we have gone about this.

And from going from a club where it has been said often we operate with "jobs for the boys" it seems that this has continued under the new owners although the good news is we have a different pool of boys to choose from for those jobs.

Bradley was assistant manager at DC United, a club that Jason Levien is part owner of but the time at the club did not co-incide with the ownership but a glance at Wikipedia tells you that we have taken an unproven manager and a massive gamble with our Premier League status.

This has been an embarrassing couple of weeks for the Swans with the way they have conducted themselves - reports last week suggested the Chairman met Bradley at Bristol Airport - and we did nothing to dampen the increasing speculation.

In the meantime we had a manager who was holding his head high and getting on with the job he was paid to do whilst those around him acted with no decency at all - culminating in today's decision on the manager's birthday. You suspect that nobody even clocked that.

Whether Francesco was right for the Swans was always open for debate - as it is for anyone - but he deserved better than us and I hope he finds better than us somewhere else.

Thank you Francesco for what you did and we are sorry for the way we treated you, please do no judge everyone in Swansea by those standards.

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englishjack added 22:34 - Oct 3 Shame on the board they have lost it you cannot lose an inspirational leader & the only player who scored consistently in the premiership & replace them with inferior unproven players Jenkins should go his luck has run out the folly of cashing in will cost us 10 times what we got & now a third rate manager from the French second division says it all
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