The writing has been on the wall for a good few weeks for Andre Villas-Boas. Yet, he did not react to appease certain powers at Chelsea, namely player power. At least, this is how the papers saw it this morning. For the memory: Villas-Boas was the eigth manager at Stamford Bridge since Roman Abramovich has bought the club in 2003. He lasted only 256 days.

Superegos at work

If his sacking really was down to a dressing room revolt, it would paint a very bad picture of those ‘Superegos’, i.e. players such as Frank Lampard, John Terry and A$hley Cole who have been at the club a long time and seem to have