Proof that football writers can have a poetic turn is delivered by Barney Ronay, writing for The Grauniad‘s sportsblog about the contrast between Spurs new and old managers, ‘Arry Redknapp and Andre Villas-Boas:
It is genuinely ennobling, this belief in the basic sanctity of the managerial mission. “We must build on Harry’s great work,” Villas-Boas said this week, bestowing an unexpected gravity on the legacy of a manager who has traditionally been a kind of footballing Cat in the Hat, a tousled and infectious improviser who could probably cook you the most brilliant meal you’ve ever tasted simply by hurling everything in the fridge into a massive bowl and then flambéing it over a raging fire built from every stick of furniture you own, before abruptly disappearing just as you come round, dazed and hungover, face down in the ashes of what was once your kitchen.
One for Pseuds’ Corner, eh lads?
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