I wouldn't want an overweight owner and his cockney side-kick telling me what to do if I had a reputation as distinguished as Keegan's.

As the television news reporter alarmingly announced breaking news at St James' Park, I wondered whether something truly dreadful had happened, a natural disaster perhaps, such was the intensity and concern in his voice.

Instead we were treated to the side-splitting view of Geordies protesting about Keegan's demise, some even gathering outside his house!

Is there nothing else for people to do on an afternoon?

And Mark Hughes must be thrilled with the thought of having to report to an Abu Dhabi sheikh to see whether Manchester City should play four-four-two or not.

To think that managers such as Alan Curbishley, Hughes and Keegan, pictured below, have be told how to run a team is just absurd, and no wonder two of them are on their way.

I try to think of the equivalent in my world; a financial hotshot pumping some cash in and proceeding to tell my coach or me what to do, which tournaments to play, what training to do – there's no chance.

The managers in football are becoming helpless, overcome by money and power from all angles, and now the wheels are falling off.

The whole ghastly situation is summed up in Robinho's dialogue on August 31: "My dream is Chelsea. They are great and my objective is to play there. My head is at Chelsea. It's not about money, I simply want to go."

On September 1 he joined Manchester City for a reported £160,000-a-week saying: "I am very happy."

But if it's only about the money – then please just say so!

On other sporting matters, Andy Murray's talent is beginning to flourish after a great run in New York.

Clearly not particularly popular with the British people it seems, and not doing himself any favours by pointing to his bicep after a win at Wimbledon, the skill he possesses, particularly on his drop shot, is sublime.

The bicep incident was apparently meant to point out the increased training load he'd been putting in, which he incessantly talks about in interviews as if training were a new thing.

Well, Andy you're a professional – training it's what you're supposed to do.