Whether or not this was him begging to be sacked, Glasner always has perspective once he’s cooled down and was right to state his team were never as good as their 19-game unbeaten run implied, just as they are not as bad right now as an 11-game winless run suggests. He and Parish cleared the air over dinner in London last week, the same setting at which the Austrian informed the chairman in October he’d be leaving in the summer, not signing a new deal.