AFL: Pagan did it tough at Carlton From: AAP Sports News (Australia) | Date: July 23, 2007 | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

AAP Sports News (Australia)
07-23-2007
AFL: Pagan did it tough at Carlton

By Mike Hedge

MELBOURNE, July 23 AAP - For the first 20 years-or-so, coaching was easy for Denis Pagan.

Then he went to Carlton.

Five years with the Blues and the job is so difficult he will almost certainly never do it again.

Carlton sacked Pagan today, seemingly bringing to an end the football career of the
most celebrated AFL coach of the 1990s.

Fed up and no doubt embarrassed by a fifth successive heavy defeat - this time by 117
points to Brisbane - Carlton did what football clubs do.

They cut off the ...

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