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Ruud Gullit has been sacked by FC Terek Grozny after just five months in charge. The club then released a statement blaming this on Grozny’s nightlife.

  • Graham MacAree

    Graham MacAree

    Ruud Gullit, Terek Grozny Part Ways

    You may have heard that Ruud Gullit has been fired as manager of Terek Grozny on Tuesday after a hugely disappointing adventure with the Russian Premier League side. But even if you didn’t know he’d been given the boot, didn’t know he’d joined them int he first place, or if you didn’t know how Ruud Gullit is at all, the statement released by the Grozny is absolutely amazing:

    It’s slightly hard to parse just what on earth the club officials might be talking about here - they’ve claimed that Gullit spent too much time at nightclubs despite then saying Grozny had no indecent nightclubs or drug abuse, which... well, ok then. I don’t think there was anyone in the world who expected this experiment to go well anyway, but we got a laugh out of it, so it’s all good.

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