Amorim & Maresca leave .

The ‘departure of Amor anf Maresca with  their clubs lying in 6th and 5th place respectively is a game changer. Time was a manager/ head coach  waited till a sacking then claimed compensation Then you were financially set up for life as 2 other Portuguese managers Mourinho and Villaboas attest.   Now the manager/ head coach delivers a rant that it’s impossible to do his job because of interference but compensation presumably for constructive dismissal is not so clear cut and until resolved the manager cannot move on.

In cricket ‘Fizz ‘ Rahman the Bangladeshi speedster has been sacked from his IPL team after pressure from the India Board of Control. In the new climate of cricket writing the MCC who have long relinquished control of the governance of cricket are often criticised for being white, colonial , public  school and patrician but the adjective ‘ corrupt’ is not applied. Sadly the influence of the Indian Board of Control is considerably more self serving and chauvinistic.