Leicester City fans finally got their answer. They hung banners and sung songs but all it took for Brendan Rodgers to lose his job was for the Foxes to drop into the relegation zone.
Defeat by Crystal Palace with the last kick of the game on Saturday – in a match they were outshot 31 to three by a Roy Hodgson team – left them 18th.
West Ham's win puts them 19th. One point from their last six. Eight since the World Cup. The worst team in the division since the restart.
The fans wanted it but the owners didn't. Leicester chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, known as Khun Top, thought and hoped Rodgers could still get them through and keep them up. In the end, he felt he had no choice.
'It had been our belief that continuity and stability would be key to correcting our course, particularly given our previous achievements under Brendan's management,' he said in the statement confirming Rodgers' departure.
'Regrettably, the desired improvement has not been forthcoming and, with 10 games of the season remaining, the Board is compelled to take alternative action to protect our Premier League status.'
Rodgers leaves an intriguing legacy. When time passes and recent torment drifts back into the dusty corners of memory, fans will remember Rodgers as one of the best managers in the club's history.
Leicester won their first FA Cup under him. They finished fifth two seasons running and should, if we're being honest, have been in the Champions League. They won the Community Shield. They beat Southampton 9-0.
He achieved phenomenal things. You can say he overachieved. You can say he inspired Leicester to punch above their weight.
Those memories will linger longer, in the decades to come, than a 4-1 defeat by Nottingham Forest in the defence of your FA Cup or losing to Tottenham when you're 2-1 up with 20 seconds to go and you have a goal-kick.
Or even being bottom of the table after seven games this season with only one point and having conceded more goals at that stage than another other team in Premier League history.
But for the past 18 months, Rodgers massively underachieved. These players should not be in the relegation zone. Not James Maddison, not Harvey Barnes, not Youri Tielemans.
You can praise one and realise the other. The former does not undermine the latter. Likewise, the past should not cloud judgement on the present.
This is a Leicester team in freefall. No belief and no fight. Rodgers failed to unite then club when it mattered.
Spending 18 months telling the world your players aren't good enough and that survival this season would be one of the achievements of your career tends to do that.
Fans have long had enough of feeling gaslit by Rodgers and, by the end, it looked like the players had too.
For some, trophies dictate a manager's success. On that front, Rodgers delivered unprecedented success to Leicester. Yet, for others, so does the landscape which a coach departs. Did they leave the club in a better state than in which they found it?
In Rodgers' case, it's not clear that he has. And not just with the club staring relegation square between the eyes.
Only two years ago, Leicester stood tall and bright as the beacon for other non-elite clubs to follow. Since then, they have proven you don't have to get much wrong for disaster to snap at your heels.
Some will point towards the lack of funds at Rodgers' disposal. The man himself certainly did. He was promised a squad overhaul and didn't get it.
The club handed bloated contracts to squad players, oversaw an unsustainable wage bill, and recently posted record losses of £92.5million.
Rodgers cannot be blamed for some of that mismanagement above his head. Yet it was Rodgers who presided over a dreadful summer spend in 2021 when the club spent £55m on Patson Daka, Boubakary Soumare, Ryan Bertrand and Jannik Vestergaard and, for once, the club kept all of their star players.
Previously excellent players like Wilfred Ndidi and Caglar Soyuncu have regressed under Rodgers to the point where they no longer have much – if any – resale value. Contracts have run down. Tielemans will likely leave in the summer for nothing.
There's a huge rebuild to be done and who knows who will be the manager to do it – or in which division it will be done.
The timing of the decision is odd. There's no succession plan and backroom staff members Mike Stowell and Adam Sadler will take charge of a monumental game against Aston Villa at the King Power Stadium on Tuesday night.
History suggests changing the manager this late does little to alter your fate. Since 2010, all managerial changes from March onwards at clubs in the relegation zone have still seen those sides go down. The tightly-squeezed bottom half of the table will give Leicester hope.
Whoever replaces Rodgers has a job on his hands. Not just to keep Leicester up but to fix the mess that's left behind.