guardian.co.uk —
Javier Clemente is nails. Real Valladolid Sporting Gijón's new coach, known as the 'Blonde of Barrakaldo', is the foul-mouthed, feisty chain-smoking football manager who knows no fear, laughs in the face of danger, and thinks nothing of checking himself out of hospital against doctors' advice and driving from Bilbao to Belgrade with four broken ribs, a fractured collarbone and a punctured lung.