Despite her having decades of experience in the field, the new boss talked down to her, over-explained things, offered unwanted lectures, frequently cut her off and contradicted what she said in meetings.

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The information was gathered by UN field staff, but their boss, Mr Eide, did not hand it over to the bodies investigating fraud.

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"The one thing which cannot happen at a club is when you have a player who is unsettled to the point where it affects his performances on the field, " said Boro boss Gareth Southgate.

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McEwan took over at Field Mill in July, after previous boss Paul Holland was sacked - having failed to keep the Stags in the Football League.

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Blues boss Dai Young chose to field a full-strength side despite the having all-but secured a home quarter-final with a tournament run that included doubles over Biarritz and Gloucester.

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What could be better, for his purposes, than a boss with eyes only for the football field, who dismissed him as an exasperating, impulsive knucklehead?

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Fifa boss Sepp Blatter has proposed that European clubs must field a minimum of six home players.

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But the sticking point, says Phillip Merrick, boss of webMethods, one of the pioneers in the field, has been the many other fiddly but necessary protocols for security, transaction certification, and so on.

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Picking nine men from a field of 23 means a more complex playing field, more shifting agendas, more overt opacity than Pick One Guy To Be Boss.

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