After four months, the misery is over. Gary Neville's brief career in Spanish football started badly, deteriorated, briefly flickered into life, and then fell off a cliff.
Valencia were five points off the Champions League places when he arrived, but he was sacked because of the very real danger that the club could be sucked into a relegation battle. Neville had been an articulate and uncompromising pundit in England for four and a half years prior to his ill-advised Spanish adventure and so naturally there has been much mirth at the speed and the manner of his downfall.