He's in a tricky spot now Al, no question of it and I thought he looked a bit broken by it all yesterday both on the touchline and the post match presser. If they get papped out by Leverkusen their season is over and he will have a very hard task in trying to get performances out of players who are going to be thinking about the beach. Add to that a very unforgiving home crowd that have a right to be pissed off given the investment made by the club and the next few months could be very tough for slippy. It must have at least crossed his mind by this point that the enormity of the task ahead of him might not be worth the effort in terms to the risk to his reputation and what his best possible exit strategy might be if so. On that score he's fucked though as there's only two ways out. If he quits he looks like he's bottled it, end of. The only way the board would be moved to fire him (new 4 year deal an all) would be because the team has completely collapsed in the final few months of the season. I honestly don't have a clue if he will be in charge for the start of next season but I reckon there's plenty popcorn moments to come from the tribute act yet.