[Devongone]

Of course there is the option of impressing people with your surprise ability to play at a higher level and wait for an obscure super-rich Russian/Ukrainian/Lithuanian to emerge from Ed Miliband's attempts to tax him. I believe a club called Bournemouth have very much the same ground capacity as us ..........

In reality next season I see Humphreys in charge of a much-changed Chesterfield outfit impressing everyone in Division One (again) with another play-off finish and Mr Cook and Leam Richardson unable to recreate their magic quick enough for Portsmouth's success-starved fans sacked after just missing out on the play-offs.

If I were Mr Cook I would be looking to move on, but Portsmouth are only asking him to repeat a trick. Who wants to be a one-trick pony? I'd want to manage an ambitious Wednesday, or a Leeds after a back-room shake-up. Go the Portsmouth route and you'd be in late middle-age, marooned maybe in the Championship, but definitely wondering whether the chance of a big club had passed you by.

I don't think he'd fail because he's no good or a traitor by the way. I think Portsmouth would write in a whole realm of expectation for Mr Cook that we didn't.