Managers happy to go along with sideshows

A week is a long time in distraction.

They seem like innocent, carefree times now, those days when we thought the worst a man could do to distract his football team was release books and reminisce about the odd fight, and perhaps engage in the odd fresh scuffle.

We have since learned there is a lot more in these good football men, as they must be known, when it comes to the art of distraction, when they properly harness the twin forces of modern distraction: bantz and controvassy.