THE creator of trademarked supersexyfootball Ruud Gullit tried his hand at management and came out the other side with an FA Cup.

He toiled on at Newcastle United, Feyenoord, LA Galaxy and even took the helm at those household favourites Terek Grozny – what first attracted him to this £5million-a-year Russian adventure, we can only wonder.

At other times, the sheer weight of his football megamind seemed to drag on his shoulders; in one example he tried to display he was a Mensa-level tactico by dropping Alan Shearer (the one who scored all the goals) from the Newcastle United side about to play rivals Sunderland.

But it never got better than that singular FA Cup trophy in the sunshine of 1997 – when Chelsea overcame the fearsome force of Middlesbrough in the final.

A great player, but an expensively ineffective hire for anybody who took him to run things.

Never was he on the touchline, for example, for a high-stakes title run-in, which let me tell you now has become so exhausting just watching that it’s like endlessly running up the Gladiators travelator with Bradley Walsh and his moony nepo lad grinning at you.

He can’t possibly know the feelings going through Mikel Arteta’s head right now, given his claim over the weekend that Arsenal had caused him to stop watching football altogether.

“It was a terrible match,” the former Chelsea player and Chelsea manager said about Chelsea’s defeat to the Gunners in the El Cornico.

He can be as critical as he likes – and so can you, my friends – but I’m going to go with: you made it boring first. You see, Arsenal’s passing game once ripped up defences and so opposition teams reacted by deciding to play for a draw against them with everybody in defence.

The only way around this barrier was to learn how to make the most of these new things they have now: corners.

Of course, we only thought it would be a few goals at first and now it’s actually the whole film, like that dawning feeling when you realised Les Misérables – a treat for mum – would all be in song.

If Gullit had been as adaptable, though, he might have had a little more managerial success.