Soon as I saw the Leeds comment, my immediate thought was that Vieira must have been so disillusioned with the transfer windows and not being supported that he considering going elsewhere.

As always, we will never know the full details, and what goes on in the back ground.

Not for at least 15 years, until Parish has lost all his money and joins Jordan on Talksport

Some of Vieria's 'achievements' don't belong to him any more than one or two of his 'failures'.

Vieria didn't sign (or 'fail' to sign) any players, Freedman does that. Like most modern clubs (including us in 2016) we ended up in the FA Cup semi-final through the semi-lottery of how hard other teams try, the teams they (and we) put out, and who we draw. A cup run happens almost by accident these days and isn't the plus point for a manager it once was.

Vieira did, however, handle a very sizable and fairly dangerous period of radical change in our squad, staff and style, and did a very good job of it too. If he'd have left in the summer I think his stock would've been quite high, even with a slightly flat second half to last season.

I can't help but feel that perhaps a run of poor (very, in this case) form has been mistaken for a terminal decline necessitating drastic action, and that, much like Pardew, Vieria was unlucky to be sacked mid-season and post-window. I could understand it if the club decide to part ways in the summer, but that would have been more of a mutual thing (or seen that way), and left less of a stain on Vieria's CV than being given a vote of no-confidence ahead of a relegation battle run-in. I don't think he deserved that.

Someone will come in and keep us up (hopefully) and then be lauded as a saviour, as Allardyce was, when the team have never been in the relegation zone and probably would have stuck a few results together without a dugout-reshuffle. In that event, Vieria will be seen as having failed at Palace, which I don't think is accurate.

Whether Vieria was the right man long-term is another matter, but sacking him now seems harsh. He seemed to carry himself quite well, and I never cared much that his post-match comments went around in circles a bit - he should not be telling the world the things he says in the changing room anyway - and he never fell into the trap of getting frustrated that his players were not as good as he once was.

I won't miss him ultimately, but I certainly have no dislike towards him.

I would very much like to hear his side of the story but I fear he had to agree to a NDA as a condition of his pay-off.

I expect it will be a year or so before the full story emerges.

However, if Parish decides to have a press conference on the matter I hope he lets Vieira respond but have a feeling he daren't risk ridicule by doing so.

Vieira deserves to put his side, unless of course, some of the unconfirmed rumours about him prove to be true.

The morning run consisted of a detour into Sainsburys to pick up a couple of boxes of doughnuts