Should Nick Clegg manage Chelsea?

Back in October 2007 I suggested offhandedly that Jose Mourinho should become the new leader of the Liberal Democrats. Rather to me embarrassment that posting made it into the top 10 Lib Dem blog posts for the year.

I don't suppose the idea will work so well in reverse, but I was amused by this observation from Decca Aitkenhead in today's Guardian:

Clegg is much more animated in real life - more colloquial, less plummy - than he often appears on TV. People say he looks like David Cameron, but in fact he looks uncannily like a younger version of the Dutch football coach Guus Hiddink.

There are parallels to be drawn between Lib Dem leaders and Chelsea managers - Paddy Ashdown was Jose Mourinho, Charles Kennedy was Avram Grant and Ming Campbell was Phil Scolari - but Nick Clegg clearly has no intention of being a caretaker manager like Hiddink.