The character had to go, and while many were shocked to see him killed off so soon, it was probably best for Bowie's sanity that he dispensed with him after just two albums, The Rise … and Aladdin Sane.
Ireland has become disillusioned in the extreme by the manner in which City have dispensed of him, but Mancini believes a move would help the midfielder to regain the form that made him player of the year two seasons ago.
Originally, Shapiro had dispensed with him by Episode 5, but his story line was extended.
The word is that some older Chelsea players still regularly text Mourinho, five years after Abramovich dispensed with him.
That topic underpins the team selection he has made, in which Steven Gerrard will take up the post on the right of midfield held by David Beckham before McClaren dispensed with him.
One is his Affordable Homes Programme covering the next four-and-a-half years, which sets out how the minimum £3.15bn being dispensed to him by the government during that time will be spent.
The St Mirren directors wavered over the future of Lennon throughout last season, then dispensed with him after the team finished seventh in the league.
Paterno didn't have to die to make it wrong to have dispensed with him before he got to say what he knew, when he knew it and how he felt about it, providing some basis for accepting his story as heartfelt or dismissing it as self-serving BS, as a minimum requirement of fairness.
As the legal arguments now having already been exhausted with Mr Gilani, the court will probably give Mr Ashraf little time to comply before also dispensing with him.
Gravesen's place among the substitutes had been taken by the 20-year-old Icelander Teddy Bjarnason, and surely now Celtic will attempt to dispense with him.
