“One of the better stories to emerge in the Russian sports media after Chelsea’s exit from the League Cup was a pure floater (in every sense of the word). Poor old Jose Mourinho will be replaced by Leonid Slutsky. Given the vile abuse meted out weekly from English terraces, what they’ll do with a person whose family name is ‘Slutsky’ does not need thinking about on a chilly Moscow morning.” backpagefootball