Really? I think it's magnificent. As has been mentioned by wiser footballing scholars than myself on here before, he's a short term fix: give it a year, maybe even two years, but it will eventually all come crashing down and Peg will walk away from the havoc he created and retire to sunnier climes somewhere. In the past when everything went tits up he'd walk out and turn up somewhere else after a short spell ready to repeat the procedure all over again. But he's older now, and he knows he has less options than he's ever had. Since his days at Porto, when -to all intents and purposes- he emerged into the public's consciousness for the first time, he's been a much sought-after commodity: someone who will deliver the goods (as long as he gets the financial backing). But things are different now, his stock is at the lowest it's probably ever been, and he's going to be under closer scrutiny than at any time in the past - his last few months at the Chavs have made him damaged goods.
Of course, he's not stupid. He knows full well what is demanded of him at the swamp, but I think he sees this as his last Hurrah! His final chance to salvage what is left of his reputation: an opportunity to stick two fingers up to everybody who doubts he has 'it' anymore. He could have gone to a smaller team pretty much anywhere in the world, China, USA, middle-east etc, but he wouldn't have got the ticker tape parade his ego demands. So where better for him to end his days than at the ultimate polystyrene palace? Representing arguably the most plastic club in global sports?
As I say, give it a year or two and he'll be heard uttering the famous words "Et Tu Brute" to the pisscan.
