Sad Slutsky’s painful stumble towardsexit

A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

LEONID Slutsky clumped out of the Hillsborough media room, dodging the assorted cameras and cables as deftly as questions about his future.
“So,” quipped a colleague after the Russian had gone, his final briefing as Hull manager complete, “anybody reckon he wants a big striker?”
Cue guffaws of laughter. City had just come back from 2-1 down against Wednesday to snatch a dramatic 95th-minute leveller, which –we wrongly assumed –would save Slutsky’s skin. Yet...