So presumably if Bayern had won on penalties last night you would have thought that Redknapp shouldn't be sacked? Sorry mate, but that's ridiculous to judge whether or not to sack your manager based on a penalty shootout between two other teams.
Additionally, should you really sack your manager for failing to achieve his target by 1 point? After meeting or exceeding targets the previous 3 years in charge?
If Harry would have got us 50 points and every other team got 37 points, we'd have won the league, not through Harry's genius, but because he seriously underachieved and got a mid table points tally, but every other club fudged up beyond belief. Harry shouldn't get the sack for winning us the league, but if he finished 8th with that point tally, he should.
It's not as simple as as sacking Harry because another team won a penalty shootout. It's about not wanting to give him an extended contract because we were in a position that our fate was decided by two opposite teams...
The important thing about Arsenal, Saudi Sportswashing Machine and Chelsea's last half a dozen games of the season was that Harry could fluke getting CL football for us due to the other teams messing up.
I personally decided to wait until the end of the season to vote because I wanted the full picture, the game that decided our season was the CL final. No matter what happened, the highs and lows of the season from the team itself were still the same, but like the Arsenal - West Brom game, our final season result was decided elsewhere in the end.
If we'd have finished 3rd because Foster played and only gifted Arsenal 1 or 2 goals instead of 3, then you simply can't sack Harry for finishing 3rd, regardless of Arsenal losing to Wigan (at home), drawing with Norwich (at home), Chelsea's second team (at home) and Stoke (away) plus drawing or losing to West Brom away.
Let's not forget, Saudi Sportswashing Machine lost to Wigan (away) and Everton (away), two tough games, in addition to City at home... If they'd have won 2 of those 3, they'd have finished 3rd.
So if Saudi Sportswashing Machine would have finished 3rd, Arsenal 4th and Spurs 5th, Harry would be even more likely to be sacked, no?
To top it off, if Harry would have sealed 3rd on the final day (whether by beating Villa and Fulham or because Arsenal drew or lost their last 2), Harry still would have deserved a few joke type comments about nearly letting a 13 point lead slip and so on. Or, if you think Levy could have given him a slap on the wrist for nearly losing it, then possibly that, but you can't slap Harry on the wrist when he's finished 3rd, just like it's very hard to sack him for getting us CL football.
You can blame Harry for taking his eye off the ball when it came to Capello resigning, the point slip since that time (and subsequent Bale roaming) are some of the many reasons that we weren't safely in 3rd when the penalty shootout in question happened... It's just important that you wait until the end of the season before deciding whether or not to sack the manager.
Look at Mancini, when he lost the title at Arsenal, people were debating whether he'd be sacked... It turned out that Emirates Marketing Project won the title, despite them being totally out of it.
Did Man United losing to Wigan, drawing with Everton and losing to City mean that Mancini fluked the title? Maybe a little bit, but he goes from zero to hero anyway and is unsackable.
Edit: I forgot Arsenal also drew 1-1- with Stoke. How the fudge did they drop 10 points in the last half a dozen games and still finish a point ahead of us? After their worst start for 50-60 years too?
