Ellis Short

Ellis Short is the American owner of Sunderland football club, and an utter bell-end.
Short sacked one of the finest managers in the game yesterday when he dismissed Martin O'Neill following a 1-0 loss to Manchester United.
This is just another example of stupid owners who know nothing about the game and are way out of their depth wanting results immediately rather than to give a manager time to bring stability to a club; to build up a team and then start looking for results. It's time the FA introduced safeguards for managers to ensure that this chopping and changing of managers stops. It harms the game, and will deter talented managers taking on roles in the English game.
There are too many foreign owners nowadays who just see football teams as a plaything. Their own real-world version of Football Manager, with their own little six-figure cheat codes. These people know nothing of the working-class roots of football teams. These people have never stood on a terrace in the middle of winter, with a pie in one hand and a Bovril in the other, and watched as 22 men played on a pitch as muddy as a bog and gave every ounce of themselves to the game, and if you wanted one of them to go down you had to take a baseball bat to their kneecaps.
I don't blame foreign owners entirely for the decline of the modern game. But they have played their part. And Ellis Short is one of them.