Struggling Swiss club fires all the players after embarrassing defeat

21 November 2014 - 12:30 By Times LIVE
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Fourth-division Swiss side FC Grenchen fires all of the starting line up after a 10-0 defeat.
Fourth-division Swiss side FC Grenchen fires all of the starting line up after a 10-0 defeat.

In most cases, the manager is the one sacrificed when a club struggles immensely.

But fourth-division Swiss side FC Grenchen have been struggling more than just immensely and, instead of doing the usual by sacking the manager, the club fired all of its players, according to Who Ate All The Pies.

They're on a nine-game losing streak and, when they fell 10-0 to FC Lucerne's youth team, the bottom-of-the-table club opted instead to oust the entire starting XI that was dismantled by the youth team.

"It sounds brutal, but these players are not good enough for this league," director Renato Brun said. "I am the head of sport and there to do something when [the club] is not running smoothly. I am one who talks less and does more."

Coach Patrick Boesch was hardly defensive in the sacking of his chosen players, either.

"It works well and is not an issue," he said. "Others would have long since chucked in the towel in this situation."

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