[Devongone]

Nor mine Dancing. Well I was good at arithmetic ……… but I was in hospital for the second week of grammar school ……… when I got back to school suddenly everybody was adding up letters and proving angles were equal to each other.

Nobody ever bothered to explain what was happening. And throughout school I can never remember being in a class in which a pupil voluntarily asked a teacher what was happening.

As I could come top in English the assumption was that I just wasn't trying in Maths. I was. I had to get about 70% in Arithmetic just to avoid being bottom when the Algebra and Geometry scores were added in.

Re Pembo- Taking into account the standard of decision-making that has brought us to the National League relegation zone from Division One play-offs I'd say NOT making a decision at all now would be the best decision for several seasons. Just keep paying him and tell him what a great job he's doing. If you make him manager for the rest of the season you're telling him you don't really trust him or the decision you're making. You are saying to him that you think there's a strong possibility he'll get us relegated and will have to be sacked …….. but just at the moment he's probably the best option out there. If you can't decide whether to love him or list him ……. just do nothing.