Real Madrid's Zinedine Zidane has gone from are you going to resign? to are you going to be Alex Ferguson? in seven days.
The answer, in case you're wondering, was no. Both times. A lot has happened in a week, and it's not over yet. There's one more match to come tomorrow night and it may be the biggest of them all -- a decent derby against a worthy rival, just as they demanded all those years ago. Against a team, in fact, that right now are better than they are. But then that seems to be the way Real Madrid like it.