For seven years Warren Buffett, the so-called Oracle of Omaha, ranked just behind his good friend and bridge partner Bill Gates as the world's second-richest man.
And then suddenly we hear that this innocent man who had been trying to do some good work in Iraq - bridge building, a peace activist who was against the war - taken up in this situation.
The dead man, a 35-year-old from Calderdale, was walking on a bridge over the Aire on Neville Street when a curtain-sided lorry toppled over on Thursday afternoon.
But it is his man-management skills that are most likely to be in demand when Hiddink finally arrives at Stamford Bridge with captain John Terry hinting that some players had not been fully supportive of Scolari.