The past few days have been as much of a whirlwind for him as for his new employers, the 52-year-old whisked from a conference in Abu Dhabi on an overnight flight and, via the gridlock of the M25, straight into Chelsea's sparkling training facility at Cobham.
The road to a downtown sports arena would undoubtedly meander from Trenton to East Rutherford and back again, slowed by as many obstacles as drivers find on the Garden State Parkway and -- given the gridlock of an election year -- as congested as any Hudson River crossing at rush hour.
I offer new ideas, ideas that are working and that can appeal both to Republicans and Democrats to break the gridlock of education in Washington".
Julián Speroni is sitting at a table in the restaurant he co-owns, sunlight streaming in past the bottles of wine and olive oil perched in the window and the goalkeeper oblivious to the gridlock of the mid-afternoon school run choking Purley Cross outside.
Today, once I'd bought my medium-sized bowl of coffee and struggled to a seat through the gridlock of baby buggies the size of Humvees, something nasty happened.
And given the difficulty of getting anything done under the gridlock of Congress, it's pretty surprising".
"This has been an aberration, this recent past, the dysfunction of Albany, the gridlock of Albany, the corruption of Albany.
Look forward to the gridlock of the coming year, because little gets accomplished.
We drove along highways that were empty compared with the gridlock of Lagos.
Amid the feuds and the policy gridlock of the Trump Administration, one faithful servant of the White House, Jefferson B. Sessions III, the Attorney General, has been busy pushing through real policy changes that have been on his mind for decades.
