Others were almost as fitting. The recently sacked Mick McCarthy chose The Da Vinci Code, a tale of blind faith and political intrigue, Burnley boss Steve Cotterill went for a tome called Beyond Winning, a title which sums up his team's efforts this season, while Sir Alex Ferguson chose Treasure Island, an old classic about the relentless pursuit of silver.
But Alan Curbishley's Bobalong The Brownie Man by Agnes Grozier Herbertson, out of print since 1953, was impossible to work out.
Likewise Martin Jol offering up Hemingway's Old Man And The Sea, while most fascinating was David Moyes' choice, Animal Farm.
If I can remember back as far as O-level English, the animals created seven new commandments. One read: Whoever goes on two legs is an enemy.
That should encom-pass everybody in the Premiership - except, of course, Didier Drogba, who can't stay on his - and Andy Van der Meyde when he argues he should be going to the World Cup with Holland.
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