Grant's future has been the subject of rumour after rumour for much of the season and last week's horrific 5-0 thumping at Newcastle was the catalyst for another round of fevered speculation.

Gabriel, though one of the quietest and most gentle men on earth, rose to the occasion, with martial promptness and vigour. That's my fist. . . . Now — the first man in the parish that I hear prophesying bad of our mistress, why (here the fist was raised and let fall as Thor might have done with his hammer in assaying it) — he'll smell and taste that.

Since your next job may not have a very full in-box or a very heavy schedule, and might lack some of the psychic rewards that your previous leadership job had, your state of depression may worsen.

I am the Ionian Minotaur, the mightiest Of all Europa’s taurine progeny— I am the old traditional Man-Bull;