The life of a football manager is not an easy one.\u00a0 \u00a0Your stock is generally only as good as maybe your last half a dozen results and you live quite often on the edge of the demands of the fans to make changes at the earliest sign of a poor run of form.<\/p>\n
Just three short weeks ago it looked for all the money as if Michael Duff was living life on the wrong side of a managerial tightrope.\u00a0 \u00a0There seemed to be a high likelihood that one more bad result could signal the end of his time in SA1 just a few short months after it started.\u00a0 \u00a0Fast forward five games and Duff’s side have picked up thirteen points from fifteen and sit back in the top half of the table with all of a sudden people starting to look upwards with a degree of optimism as opposed to downwards with a real fear of relegation.\u00a0 \u00a0Three weeks between possible success and failure is really the way to sum up that life of a football manager.<\/p>\n
So you have to give some serious credit to the manager for the part that he has played in turning around the Swans fortunes.\u00a0 \u00a0Saturday’s 3-1 win at Plymouth secured a fourth successive maximum return but it was also the style in which we scored three second half unanswered goals that lifted the optimism even more.\u00a0 \u00a0To see the clinical nature of the breakaway that saw the third goal scored right at the end of the game was a throwback to days gone by and certainly put to bed any myth that a Michael Duff side is incapable of playing some half decent football.\u00a0 In truth that goal was more than half decent as was the opening two goals of the game that took the Swans tally to an impressive eleven goals in that four match winning streak.<\/p>\n