IT’S been quite a week, that time of year when the term “the sack” is thrown around like it isn’t loaded with pain and fear in any other industry.

He’s been sacked, football fans say gleefully. You’re fired!

Maybe the fact that Premier League managers aren’t scared of being “let go” – the slightly more humane term, even if it sounds a bit like there’s a vet in the other room with a woozy needle for you – is part of the problem.

Most everyday people can’t afford to start bad-mouthing their bosses into a microphone and then expect to be paid full compensation on the contract they obviously won’t now be seeing through. In the totally not-normal world of football, you can be completely awful at your job, lose to Grimsby, blame everybody else and then get a gold-plated payoff and take some time off at a luxury resort.

So while you might have liked Enzo Maresca or thought Ruben Amorim seemed a nice man – you probably didn’t have long enough to get to know Wilfried Nancy – there’s not a heap of sympathy in the tank.

Let’s reserve that for me and you, and everybody else in the world about to be toasted in the AI jobopocalypse.

Was that helpful? If you’d like I can rewrite it less like a tired, repetitive and childish 20-year-old local newspaper football column.

The trouble is no matter how many managers all of these clubs burn through, nothing seems to work. Even ones that are meant to work don’t work. Even ones that start well, don’t work.

Although it will not dilute any of the crowing coming your way or satisfaction if Arsenal do win the league this year, it’s not an outrageous statement to suggest that most of the teams in league, even those who have spent as much as Chelsea, don’t look very impressive this season.

The standard is underwhelming.

Maybe then all the possible combinations of different managers at different clubs, going round and round in circles, have been exhausted.

Maybe there just isn’t anybody left to try,

Maybe the only thing for United to do now is to tell Sir Alex Ferguson to come down from the stands. He goes to every game anyway.