Seedorf left with a massive Milan pineapple to peel


  • Football
  • Wednesday, 12 Mar 2014

AC Milan's coach Clarence Seedorf reacts during the Italian Serie A soccer match against Juventus at the San Siro stadium in Milan March 2, 2014. REUTERS/Giorgio Perottino

(Reuters) - One phrase that AC Milan coach Clarence Seedorf may have learnt during his recent stint playing in Brazil sums up the task he faces in Italy: He has an enormous pineapple to peel.

The saying, based on the idea that pineapples are prickly and laborious to peel, is used when somebody is left to resolve a huge problem not of their own making.

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