Failure is an option

It is well known that football managers have a tough job, but if you are a Chelsea manager that job is several degrees tougher. So over the week-end André Villas-Boas became the latest in a line of talented coaches to fall in the face of the London club's perfectionism and impatience. From a neutral viewpoint (I don't really support any team) it has seemed inevitable that Villas-Boas was going to go sooner rather than later with Chelsea's failure to lead from the outset. Now that they are 'la...