England rugby coach 'steps down'; 'Leaves by mutual consent' and many other phrases mean the same thing - sacked, but with a wad of cash in the bank to ease the pain.
It's not confined to sport, business's do it all the time and the more senior, the less likely you are to see the 'sacked' word appear in any headlines, interviews etc. although we all know what's really gone on.
Interestingly, we don't bother with these statements for the more lowly worker, even if they do receive a relatively large amount of cash when they leave. The 1000 steel workers recently made redundant in Scunthorpe will receive a nice redundancy package, but did not leave 'by mutual consent' but the outcome is exactly the same as Stuart Lancaster.
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