David Martindale's view that there should be a window for sacking managers is unworkable and ridiculous

DAVID MARTINDALE is going to lose the little hair he’s got left if he keeps working himself into a lather over YouTubers having a go at managers and insisting there should be some kind of window applying to the hiring and firing of coaches.

The genie is out of the bottle with all this stuff. Everywhere you turn, every time you switch on your phone or turn on the radio, there are opinions flying around everywhere like midgies at sundown.

That’s just the nature of the game now. Unlike the past, when you phoned a radio station or wrote into the letters page of a paper, everyone has the medium available to them to put their thoughts on football out there. And we’re forever being told it’s a game of opinions, aren’t we?

Punters pay their money to go to games and back their club and are allowed to set up their podcasts – many of which are exceedingly good, by the way – to say what they like within the boundaries of the law. An entire industry revolves around punditry and speakers nights and whatnot. It keeps a certain number of ex-managers and suchlike earning a useful wage after they have been emptied.

You can argue it’s all just part of football – and talking about it in a public forum - becoming a bit more democratic. It’s all entertainment now. And it ain’t changing.

Coping with all this is just part of the reason why so many managers are paid so well. Gordon Strachan always used to say that and he was right. You need to be able to handle the modern environment and, from this seat in the arena, the best way seems to be disconnecting from social media and just trying to keep the external noise out.

As for bringing in a transfer window of sorts for managers, that just isn’t going to fly at all.

As in any walk of life, managers will get bulleted if they aren’t doing their jobs properly. It’s completely unrealistic to suggest owners and chairmen should be shackled to them and see their clubs get relegated as a result. That’s just the name of the game – and an occupational hazard.

From a certain perspective, head coaches at a certain level of the professional game have it pretty good as it is. You can argue they get rewarded for failure, with significant pay-offs to be banked no matter how badly they have performed.

That doesn’t create a massive amount of sympathy among the millions of people out there employed in the gig economy, on zero-hours contracts or working hard with few rights at all.

Martindale is at the coalface of football and his views do carry a certain weight. He is swimming against the tide, though.

An entire global workforce in all trades and business is having to cope with their worlds changing and evolving in ways they don’t approve of. If this really is vexing Martindale the way it seems to, he’d maybe be better considering something else – because it’s only going one way.