Thursday, November 22, 2012

Di Matteo sacked: the madness continues


As a pundit, I, maybe like some others in the field, come to expect to write on certain topics with some regularity. Rumored transfers, training ground bust-ups, and players deserving of an international cap or two are common fodder, though I think we've reached (or well passed) the point of adding the perpetually hot seat at Chelsea to this list of usual topics. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Yet, even with the normalcy of these proceedings firmly in mind, the madness or even insanity of such occurrences should not be minimized or trivialized. While some of the sackings we've seen from Stamford Bridge were hardly unexpected, such as the dismissals of Villas-Boas or Scolari, while others, such as the firing of Carlo Ancelotti, largely defied reason.