I met a guy in the gym a couple of days ago. I knew him as one of the regular gymmers and nothing else. He came to me and said, “Bal Thackerey passed away!”. I am in Hyderabad and so is that guy who has if not much only heard stories of the great BT. I grinned at him to which he said “The man passed away and you are laughing, yaar.” To which my only reply was that not much changes in my life and went on with my routine. Today comes the news of a key figure exiting a club I love. There are comments all over twitter and it has become an altogether familiar story at Chelsea that a manager doesn’t perform and he is shown the door before he knows how to recover. Such is the life of a manager in the club. It is demanding and sometimes cruel. One of the tweets contained this stat. I quote, “262 - Roberto Di Matteo lasted 262 days as Chelsea manager, longer than Villas-Boas (256), Grant (247) & Scolari (223). Fired.” All names to reckon but faced the wrath of a very ambitious owner wh...