A dignified way to call it quits

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A dignified way to call it quits
Tue, 17 Dec, 2013 - 00:00
John fogarty
John Fogarty

That phrase we’re supposed to swallow every time a Premier League manager is sacked.

Andres Villas-Boas’s departure from Tottenham Hotspur yesterday morning prompted those two abused words less than 24 hours after he said he wasn’t the quitting kind.

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