Human failings of Villas-Boas

There was good reason why Mourinho and Ancelotti stuck with the English core they inherited at Chelsea

I once studied, if that’s the word, human resource management; a pungent cocktail of common sense, meanness and bullshit. In some ways, an introductory guide to badness.

Because the moment a man is able to see another human as a resource, if only for the purposes of getting an essay in on time, a small part of his own humanity is lost. And from a dark place like that, there is every likelihood that, one day; he will use the word ‘stakeholders’. From there, even if he’s talking about Frankie Lampard and friends, it’s a long road back to the light.