Target Man ; Sacked for the Second Time in a Year, Davie Hay has Again Become a Scapegoat. Unfairly, Insists Preston Graeme Croser Finds the Deposed Pars Boss has an Ally in Allan
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SOMEBODY up there must have it in for Davie Hay. Little more than a year after becoming the first non-Old Firm manager to lift one of Scottish football's domestic prizes since 1998, and the man dubbed the Quiet Assassin has been given the sack twice. That moment when Livingston clinched last season's CIS Cup seemed a world away when Hay was handed his P45 by Dunfermline last Monday, almost exactly one year to the day since Pearse Flynn - the man who will finalise a deal to buy the Almondvale club this week - told him he was surplus to requirements inWest Lothian.
On this occasion, you could at least say results contributed to Hay's demise - but, given the suffocating circumstances under which he had been forced to work, it should not have surprised Pars chairman John Yorkston that the team would struggle this season.See the full content of this document
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Target Man ; Sacked for the Second Time in a Year, Davie Hay has Again Become a Scapegoat. Unfairly, Insists Preston Graeme Croser Finds the Deposed Pars Boss has an Ally in Allan
The loss of Stevie Crawford and Craig Brewster, who were widely regarded as the best strike partnership outwith the Old Firm, was the most obvious factor in the Fifers' slump to the bottom of the SPL, but rumours that the club was teetering on the brink of a financial abyss and the suggestion that bonuses weren't being paid can't have helped...
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