{"id":1199,"date":"2026-06-03T12:12:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2026-06-03T12:12:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:12:47","slug":"david-beckham-gary-neville-wield-the-axe-salford-city-sack-manager-despite-clubs-best-ever-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=1199","title":{"rendered":"David Beckham &#038; Gary Neville wield the axe! Salford City sack manager despite club&#8217;s best EVER season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"D\">\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><span>Robinson\u2019s dismissal comes as a surprise to many given the relative success of the campaign. Under his guidance, Salford achieved their highest-ever finish in the English football pyramid, finishing fourth in League Two. However, the club narrowly missed out on automatic promotion by a single point to Cambridge United, a failure that forced them into the lottery of the play-offs where they ultimately fell short.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><span>During his two-and-a-half-year tenure, Robinson oversaw 132 games, securing 60 victories. While he initially inherited a side that had slumped to 20th in the table, he successfully stabilised the project and turned them into promotion contenders. Nevertheless, a damaging run of five defeats in six games during January proved costly in the final reckoning for automatic spots.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robinson\u2019s dismissal comes as a surprise to many given the relative success of the campaign. Under his guidance, Salford achieved&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}