For me so much of football is down to the right place, right time, circumstances coming together in your favour for most managers bar the very, very best.
For instance, in
Moyes second season we finished 17th. Despite the position we never really flirted with relegation that season and we were safe with games to spare if I remember right?
Now for any time in our history bar that one that would have seen the manager out the door and our fans up in arms. Because of great escapes and a decade of turd we let it slide. But, he also had to be lucky enough to have a chairman willing to let it slide. I can't imagine a chairman of any other club our size allowing that, but Bill did. Rightly so as it's turned out.
Nobody would have been up in arms if he were sacked and
Moyes may have easily joined the queue of journeymen manangers getting a season or two here and there at mid level clubs.