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Yep.

Fair point; except when he was fired by Norwich he said “I understand the recent frustrations...” and while saying “I am naturally very disappointed to have lost my job...”, he didn’t mention surprise at all. These sentiments convey to me an understanding of why he was dismissed from Norwich...

Yep, your fourth option is possible. However, Tony and Barber are on public record multiple times as saying that the target was PL survival, with hopefully a decent cup run. I do not recall them either of them having ever said, prior to Hughton's dismissal, anything at all about the style of...

Hmm. A target like "Retain our PL status" is unambiguous - like any decent target should be, it's totally not open to interpretation. I think it's far more likely (as others have said) that TB decided that Chris was a) unlikely to repeat the feat next season and that anyway b) he wanted a...

Yes, exactly. Which is the most likely example of my option 2. From Tony's perspective - it's not unreasonable. From Chris', it might have been "Whoa - you never said that at interview and it's not in my contract. That's simply not fair - it means you could sack me at any time - all you...

“Surprised” is the interesting word. I can’t interpret it in any more than only three ways: 1 “I paid no attention to the targets that had been set for me by the Board; I hadn’t realised they were important” 2 “The b’stards had more targets for me than they told me. That’s not on” 3 “I got...