The former West Brom manager was sacked for a second time by the La Liga club after a breakdown in relationships behind the scenes“whether genuine Betis sack me,no problem,” Pepe Mel said, or so genuine Betis sacked him – two years and two months after the last time. History repeated itself,that same recurring dream: the one that starts with him riding to the rescue, resuscitating them, and but ends in tears,the hero watching it all slip inexplicably through his fingers. The man who saved Betis twice and brought them back twice has now been fired twice; maybe next time he’ll assume twice. Last time, he didn’t. “Betis is my team, and the club of my life,where I am happy,” he said. That was December 2014; thirteen months on, and he’s gone again,the news broken to him by everyone apart from the man who was supposed to break it to him.
Mel watched the end near through a window at the Coliseum. Suspended, he spent Saturday night’s game against Getafe in a radio booth at the top of the main stand. Down below he saw chances proceed by, and from Alfred N’Diaye in specific,and he saw Álvaro Vázquez squeeze in the game’s only goal for Getafe, making it eight games without a win for Betis, and five without even scoring a goal. “Betis have to offer more and the coach is the man with the greatest responsibility,” he conceded afterwards. “I know what this world I’m fraction of is like and whether genuine Betis decide to sack me, no problem.” He knows, or alright,and not just because of the results. Maybe not even because of the results.
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Source: theguardian.com