The big news out of the EPL over the last couple of days has been the firing of manager Luiz Felipe Scolari by Chelsea after just seven months on the job and to a lesser extent, Tony Adams from Portsmouth after only nine games in charge.

Scolari won’t be crying too much though as he could still collect as much as 15 million pounds in compensation. The Brazilian had a three-year contract with the London club, which was worth about 6 million pounds a year. And you wonder why clubs are in financial trouble by suffering losses and why ticket prices are often too high for the average Joe to buy?

Well if we look at Chelsea, they have gotten rid of their last three managers in Jose Mourinho, Avram Grant and now Scolari. It’s estimated they may have to spend 40 million pounds in total to pay these three off.

This leads to the question of why do football clubs continue to hand out long-term contracts to managers, considering the nature of the game? I wouldn’t sign any manager, I don’t care who he is, to anything longer than two years. Sven Goran Erikkson has made a living out of getting hired and fired from numerous clubs while padding his bank every time he’s been sacked for being a failure.

The owners are digging themselves into graves by continuously paying out tons of cash for unwanted managers. But it’s their own fault. It’s also the fault of the managers who get sacked too. I don’t feel sorry for any guy who gets the boot for running a football team who leaves star players such as Didier Drogba sitting on the bench for the majority of the season while the club is starving for goals.

These managers just don’t seem to understand that to win a game you actually have to score at least one goal. However, all they’re concerned about is playing the games “not to lose.” It’s such a negative approach to professional sports. If you or me didn’t produce at work after seven months, getting the sack wouldn’t come as such a shock to me. But hey, who cares when your employer is paying you millions to walk away?

Who’s going to take over at Chelsea? Well the rumour mill is turning as usual so you can expect to hear that everybody from Gianfranco Zola to Gus Hiddink to Frank Rijkaard will be the next manager of the blues. I just wonder how long of a contract the new boss will get.

While we’re on the topic of money, it comes as no surprise that Premier League clubs are against the introduction of a salary cap, but are considering a quota for a minimum number of ‘homegrown’ players.

This comes after European Clubs’ Association turned down a proposal that states clubs involved in UEFA competitions can only spending a maximum of 50 per cent of their turnover on wages.

Meanwhile over at FIFA headquarters, there is a plan to experiment with a penalty box system for yellow card offences. This basically means if a player is carded by the referee they would be sent off the pitch for five or 10 minutes as in rugby.

Another proposal is to increase the amount of substitutes from three to four if a game goes into extra-time. And some more common sense as FIFA may experiment by using assistant referees behind each goal line.