Who would have ever, ever put money on Jose Mourinho to be the first premiership manager to face the axe this season? They say he left Chelsea by ‘mutual consent’ but I don’t believe it for a second.

“The decision comes after the club held a crisis meeting to discuss the indifferent start to the new season.”

It’s been no secret that there has been some tension, shall we say, between the Abramovich, the boardroom and the big man himself but Jose is not the kind of manager to just up and leave in such a sudden and frankly shocking way. He always declared his love for Chelsea and desire to see out his contract which ended in 2010, and with the most loyal team of players behind him it would have had to have taken a serious bust-up to force him out the door.

Abramovich has always had a few screws loose when it comes to football. No other club has had so much money to throw around and it’s fantastic for building a world beating squad but letting this Russian look at the players market is like taking my Nan to Halfords. You end up spending £70 on a wiper blade that doesn’t even fit. Shevchenko and Ballack are great players; don’t get me wrong, but in football you build your team around the system and not the other way around. Tactically Mourinho is sound. It may not be fascinatingly entertaining but his system works. Two Premiership titles prove that. Bring in these multi-million pound stars (OK, Ballack was on a free transfer but at £130,000 a week he is also the most highly paid footballer in the UK) and you’ve got players who look great on posters but shocking on the pitch.

I am very, very sad to see Mourinho go. Making the best of a bad situation, I’d love to see him stay in the premiership with Tottenham but it’s unlikely. Honestly, I don’t know which club he’ll go to. Liverpool winning the title this season will be that much less satisfying knowing that we beat a Chelsea side that wasn’t managed by perhaps the best football manager of our generation, and those word of mouth wars that are waged before each clash will also be sorely missed. I guess we’ll have to settle with Fergie.

On the plus side, I got a new cap for my USB stick! I’ve owned three flash drives in my time and lost the cap on each one. Not too long ago I found one of them, but it was for the oldest and crappiest of the lot – a 64mb stick that barely works after going through the washing machine at least once and having whatever resemblance of a brand wiped off. The other is a 1 GB play.com stick which still works, but that too is suffering from wear and tear. The drive I use persistently is a 2 GB corsair flash voyager. The title means nothing because we all know that aside from a few differences in read and write speeds, all drives are the same. Some techies will probably turn to me and say – errr, actually no they are not the same, ones got tinnier dots in it – or something, but they all do the same thing.

I like this drive because it’s stylish, waterproof and durable. The rubber casing isn’t going to chip, scratch or wear away. I safely store all my important files on there and regularly transfer files to and from home and work. Corsair even have a useful application for synchronising files from the drive to the hard disk. Essentially, I’d be lost without it.

So when I lost the cap I was rather disappointed. You might picture me with tears balling down my eyes but after losing the two previous caps my skin has grown a little thicker. I was very pleased when Google found me a Corsair support forum with countless others who had been as careless as I. On it was an address to email with contact details to send out a replacement cap, and for free! Actually, there were two email addresses. The smart thing to do would have been to email both of them but me being me, I initially only sent a request to one. No surprises here, it was the wrong one. Perhaps it wasn’t so much wrong as it was out of date. The forum post did go back to 2006. After three weeks with no response, I found the other address and sent another request. The next day I received a reply from a nice chap named James and three weeks later I have my new cap. Three weeks does seem like a bit of a long time to send an envelope with a little bit of rubber in it but since it was free, you can’t complain. If anything, hats off to Corsair. I’d be barking up the mad tree if I ever thought I’d get the same treatment from play.com. Play.com are a great company, but don’t offer support for any of the many, many products they sell.