Mourinho and Sparky

Feel a bit sorry for Mark 'Sparky' Hughes - the old warhorse has proved himself a shrewd, resolute boss at Blackburn and for Wales, but it looks like it is all going pear shaped at Man City. It is not easy when you are a young manager trying to manage with a dark shadow looming over your shoulder...especially when that shadow is linked with brilliance and magic. Yes, Jose could be on his way back to England - two or three years earlier than we had expected. It has always been assumed he would land back on our shores when Sir Alex hung up his chewing gum for the last time in either 2010 or 2011, but there are flashing lights suggesting he is the man the United Arab Emirates based bosses of City may admire. Would Jose come? Well, would you change jobs for £15million a year? Especially as Italy now does not seem quiet so sparkling a place now those bad boys of the Press are ganging up on him over there. It will certainly be good to see the special one back in business...football in England hasn't had the same mischievous sparkle since he went away. But it would be sad to see Sparky'd caeer derailed - however temporary that would turn out to be.