But it did get me thinking of famously public football firings. The drugs slurs are ten-a-penny, but it's all in the privacy of your own home (or the Boujis nightclub bogs). That's a bit too easy if you ask me. What you really want is a bit more outwardness .. a slab of showmanship.

There was Brazilian footballer Alex da Rosa who, during a press conference held in order for four of his teammates to apologise for a raucous late-night drinking spree, stripped naked and showcased his wares to a room full of photographers and journalists. Fired!

Then Uruguayan striker Mario Leguizamon, who having been sent off by female ref Silvia Reyes (Jose's Mum presumably), made insulting sexual connotations .. not to her face, oh no, but in a televised interview!