Diego for Rovers?

Argentine legend Diego Maradona is being lined up as the new manager of Blackburn Rovers, according to a report in the Daily Mirror.
Rovers' new owners, Balaji and Venkatesh Rao, are determined to make the club sexier, and to do that they are determined to bring in someone with iconic status. The overall plan, the Mirror claims, is to help launch Venky's as a UK-wide fast food chain.
The newspaper quoting "an insider" at the VH Group claimed that "Maradona is seen as the right profile for the VH Group."
Given Maradona's well-known weakness for fast food, they might just be on to something.
In terms of football management, the picture is less clear. After two abortive starts in club coaching in South America the 50-year-old was handed the reins of the Argentina national team in 2008. He led a nation with an absurd array of talent to their worst ever defeat, a 6-1 loss to Bolivia, during a spell which almost saw them fail to qualify for the World Cup, though he did turn things round subsequently.
Big Sam's sacking takes up plenty of column inches, with The Daily Telegraph and The Sun reporting slightly less entertaining reasons for him getting the boot: a dispute over having players bought against his wishes in the January transfer window.
The Telegraph claims that the new owners at Blackburn want to bring in Rangers striker Kris Boyd and former Hull man Geovanni. The Daily Mail is not so sure, quoting Allardyce himself claiming, "it has still not really been explained to me and I am a bit confused in my own head as to why."
Still, it's not all bad for Sam. At least he can sit around the house counting his pay-off - either £1.5 or £2.5 million depending on who you believe - while he figures out what happened.