Cuatro paella, por favor, chef William Hill will not be the last bookmaker to stop taking bets on the next Premier League manager to leave his club, after Rafa Benitez was offered a £3m pay-off to get the fuck out of Liverpool. How is it that in some lines of work you get rewarded with a golden handshake for failing to reach your minimum targets, when some of us get a P45 and a note requesting the return of your work laptop, mobile phone and firm-branded hacky sack before the end of the day? Aston Villa boss Martin O’Neill has been the favourite to replace ‘the fat Spanish waiter’ for some time and now those odds are shrinking faster than Sophie Reade’s bikini. Read more.
