give the sack

That said, no-one could have predicted Bielsa would have been given the sack after the game, but he had taken Leeds as far as he could.

It tells of her great-grandmother, Rose, an enslaved woman in South Carolina who gave the sack to her 9-year-old daughter, Ashley, as the little girl was being sold off at auction.

The mother, an enslaved woman named Rose, gave the sack — containing a dress, pecans and a braid of her hair — to her daughter Ashley in 1852.

"On November 2nd, we understand up to 12,000 of your loyal Asda workers will be given the sack - just before Christmas," it said in a letter sent over the weekend.

So those thousands of maverick, loose-cannon workers, selfishly trying to improve Wells Fargo’s balance sheet, have been given the sack.