No room for sentiment in game we love

BAYERN MUNICH won their 11th straight Bundesliga title on goal difference yesterday and, before the confetti has settled on the grass, the word is on the grapevine that Oliver Kahn has been bulleted as CEO and Hasan Salihamidzic is on the way out as sporting director.

Kahn (pictured), by all accounts, was even forbidden from attending their final-day fixture in Cologne.

Club legends? Who cares? This is the ruthlessness of top-level football in technicolour.

It has been a mess of a season at Bayern, to be fair. Julian Nagelsmann was sacked as head coach despite being in the hunt for three trophies and his replacement Thomas Tuchel only just got them over the line in the title race after exiting the Champions League and German Cup. He will probably be next to get sacked. That’s just the way it is. Football is ruthless.

Just bear it mind the next time the usual suspects here in Scotland start blathering on about how managers need two seasons to get things right or how Robbie Neilson being binned by Hearts is harsh or why Jim Goodwin deserves a shot at being Dundee United boss despite being relegated after losing every fixture after the split.

There is no future in rewarding failure. Even winning sometimes isn’t enough. If you can’t handle that, don’t get involved.