WIN SERIE A? SARRI COULDN’T RUN A CHIPPY!

Maurizio Sarri has angered employees of the Poste italiane by belittling the seriousness of their work.

Sarri, whose Juventus team have slipped to second in Serie a, said that if he wanted to avoid pressure he would have ‘taken a job at the post office’. understandably, those who rise in the small hours to sort and deliver mail are upset by this slight.

it is ironic that many of the jobs cited for their ease are incredibly difficult. in London it used to be said of a failing football manager or board of directors that they couldn’t be trusted to run a whelk stall. But running a whelk stall, when such a thing existed in the capital, was hard.

it was fresh produce for a start, meaning it couldn’t keep from one week to the next. To operate a whelk stall efficiently, the stallholder would have to know his trade inside out, just to correctly estimate stock. Same with running a fish and chip shop: another job rotten employees cannot be trusted to do. They work long hours in chippies, particularly if the owner goes to market early, too.

By comparison, do you know what sounds easy? Winning the league at Juventus. Every manager has done it since 2011-12 under antonio Conte — eight straight titles, with an average winning margin of 9.37 points. Sarri (above) is making hard work of it. He’s also trailing inter on goal difference, despite having Cristiano ronaldo in his team.

Now that really takes some doing and any postman, whelk stall holder or owner of a fish and chip shop would agree.