.theguardian - 12 days ago

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!When the rage-fuelled calamity-magnet that is Evangelos Marinakis stormed on to the pitch to publicly lambast Nuno Espírito Santo after Nottingham Forest’s draw with Leicester at the back end of last season, it set in motion a sequence of events that even those tasked with dreaming up the baroque, over-engineered death sequences in the Final Destination movie franchise would dismiss for being too outlandish and implausible. Not so much a butterfly flapping its wings in China, as a large, angry Greek man flapping his gums and arms at the City Ground, the Forest owner’s tirade marked the beginning of the end of his relationship with Nuno. Arguably the club’s most successful manager since Brian Clough, the Portuguese coach was kicked to the kerb following a series of press conferences in which he appeared to be encouraging his boss to give him the managerial equivalent of the Golden Boot. Nuno may as well have held up a sign which read: “Please fire me, I’d prefer to manage a club that isn’t a complete bin fire (or failing that, West Ham).”Is Evangelos Marinakis in advanced talks with Sean Dyche’s successor?” – Gary McGregor.In football is life in hyperspeed news: you win Spurs their first European trophy in more than 40 years, and yet you’ve been sacked from your second job in just four months since then. It’s a tough life, mate” – Noble Francis.I refer to the quote attributed to Brendan Rodgers in yesterday Bits and Bobs (full email edition). There is no reason at all why you cannot drive a Honda Civic as you would a Ferrari … the shortcomings would be down to the relative performance of each automobile, not necessarily the driver!” – John Scent. Continue reading...

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