Newly appointed Steaua Bucharest coach, Dorinel Munteanu, left, will have to get used to the close attentions of club owner Gigi Becali Photograph: Mihai Stetcu/AP
One of football’s greatest fallacies is that continuity is in itself a good thing. When Sam Allardyce left Newcastle after 24 matches, a host of pundits repeated the observation that Sir [...]

Rivaldo - the greatest since Maradona? Photograph: Nuno Correira/Getty Images/Allsport
A common, if slightly cringeworthy, observation of pundits in this country is that, if you could marry British will with continental skill, you would have the perfect footballer. Such a mixed recipe was thrillingly in evidence in Diego Maradona. Since then, however, perhaps only Rivaldo has [...]