EXCLUSIVE Chest-thumping, manager eating ex-Leeds owner Massimo Cellino on his love affair with the club and how he once accidentally sacked a coach when he asked to change the couch!

For today’s lunch, the man they call ‘The Manager Eater’ settles for the local speciality of tagliolini with white truffle.

Then again, it has been just six days since he last chewed up a boss in Brescia — his 21st helping in six years. ‘It’s a very expensive meal,’ Massimo Cellino say with a smile about his insatiable and infamous appetite for hiring and firing coaches.

There is, though, a problem when we convene at Ristorante Nineteen in the centre of this tranquil Italian city, close to Lake Garda. And it has nothing to do with the food.