Goodbye…

to the worst football team to have disgraced major championships for a long time.

“Ha sido un gran honor”

Barecelona ha echado a Rijkaard. Santi, en el quinto comment acá da en el clavo.

El senyor Laporta té molt per apendre com a persona i com a profesional del senyor Rijkaard. Espero l’any que vé tenir jugadors minimament implicats amb el projecte. Sr.Rijkaard MOLTA SORT EN EL TEU FUTUR!

Catenaccio

A beautiful game is for 24 hours in the newspapers; a result stands forever.

Trap’s first press conference. The rest of the story is here.

Intelligence And Rationality

But switch on ‘Match of the Day’ on a Saturday night, and who is the manager who talks the most intelligently, rationally and without hyperbole? Who has an authority and a presence that commands and demands your attention? Who has assumed the mantle of a managerial statesman within a very short period of joining that rag-tag band of winners and losers?

John Inverdale writes in praise of Roy Keane here.

Who’d Have Thought it?

Trap to manage Ireland.