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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Felix Magath arrived with strong reputations for their first shot at management in English football last season. Cheap Authentic Shirts .Neither of them lasted nine months.On Thursday, Solskjaer quit as Cardiff manager citing a difference in philosophy with the teams owners, and Magath was fired by Fulham hours later to leave the London club searching for its fourth coach since December.Both clubs were relegated from the Premier League last season and have been unable to stop their slide in the unforgiving 24-team League Championship. Fulham is in last place on one point from seven matches and Cardiff is 17th on eight points.In January, Solskjaer swapped job security at Molde, where he won three trophies in three years, and a settled family life in his native Norway, to try to keep Cardiff in Englands top division.But he failed to have the same impact he managed in his playing career at Manchester United, which reached its peak when he diverted home an injury-time winner in the Champions League final against Bayern Munich in 1999.Solskjaer, who spent 11 years at United and was known for his lethal finishing as a super-sub, decided to step down after holding talks with Cardiff owner Vincent Tan and chairman Mehmet Dalman.Our difference in philosophy on how to manage the club made me decide to step aside and allow the club to move forward in the direction Vincent wants, Solskjaer said.Tan said Cardiffs recent results do not justify Oles continued role as manager at Cardiff.Magath arrived at Fulham a month after Solskjaer, on an 18-month contract and with a reputation for brutal training and fitness methods that earned him the nickname Torturer. He won Bundesliga titles with Bayern Munich and Wolfsburg in Germany.Fulham was bottom of the Premier League with 12 matches remaining, but Magath couldnt keep the team up.In 20 matches under Magath, Fulham won only four.This is an unfortunate but necessary change, Fulham chairman Shahid Khan said. I am doing what I feel is right and needed for Fulham ... for today as well as tomorrow.I thank our supporters for standing by us during these most difficult of times on the pitch, and promise better days ahead. Wholesale Shirts . 5 Trade Deadline is drawing closer and teams will be deciding on whether to buy or sell. Wholesale NFL Shirts . Lineup news, Fantasy and more in Scott Cullen’s Statistically Speaking. 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Again, I will say, we cant live a long way playing that way. Youre not going to outshoot everybody, there are going to be nights that balls not going to fall, but I did like our focus, I thought our energy was there, our rebounding was there, and thats all you can ask.Avery Bradley topped the Celtics (2-1) with 22 points, while Marcus Thornton had 19.Kelly Olynyk, who was born in Toronto and moved to Kamloops, B.C., when he was 12, had eight points for the Celtics. His Canadian teammates Joel Anthony of Montreal and rookie Dwight Powell of Toronto didnt play.The Raptors shot 50 per cent from the field, but allowed Boston to shoot 49 per cent, and they gave up 37 points to their visitors in the third quarter in front of 16,729 fans at Air Canada Centre.The Raptors trailed 93-87 going into the fourth quarter, but chipped away at the deficit. James Johnson cut the difference to two points — and provided one of the highlights of the night — when he soared in for a put-back on a Patterson miss with just over eight minutes to play.The Raptors kept their foot on the gas from that point on and when Lowry grabbed his own rebound and dribbled in for a nice floater, it put Toronto up 106-98 with about six minutes left. Discount NFL Shirts. The Raptors dominated to the final whistle.Lowry looked in regular-season form down the stretch, and said its all about trying to get my rhythm.Its pre-season but were still trying to put our emphasis on games and trying to get our defensive identity and our intensity going and create good habits, he said.Casey was pleased with the performance of Patterson, who sat the first two games with a sore hand and sore knee.Huge, Casey said of his game. I thought he made one big bucket off the dribble, off the bounce that was huge. He gave us 20 minutes and 17 points, I thought that was big, but just his defensive energy with seven rebounds was huge. He brings a defensive presence and energy to the court that you cant really put a premium on.Boston coach Brad Stevens also lamented his teams lack of defensive effort.We gave up 60 in the first half, Stevens said. We went on a spurt in the third quarter where we played OK defensively but to their credit they spread us out and made plays. Were going to have to get a lot better.Torontos starters — Lowry, DeRozan, Terrence Ross, Johnson, and Valanciunas — played the majority of the first quarter, and took a 31-21 lead into the second, DeRozan leading the way with nine points.Bradley poured in 17 points in the second as the Raptors lead nearly vanished. Toronto was up 60-56 at halftime.Defence was virtually non-existent in the third as the Raptors allowed Boston to shoot 60 per cent from the field and take a nine-point lead with just under a minute left in the quarter.Ross, who injured his knee and ankle late in Torontos pre-season opener, returned after missing Torontos 113-106 loss at Sacramento on Tuesday. Greg Stiemsma, injured in practice Tuesday, didnt pass a baseline concussion exam Friday. Hell undergo another test Saturday.Lucas Nogueira, who has yet to play this season due to a groin strain, sat out the game.The Raptors are in New York to face the Knicks on Monday in the first of three straight on the road. They return to Toronto to host Maccabi Haifa on Oct. 22.The Raptors open the regular season at home to the Atlanta Hawks on Oct. 29. ' ' '