That breathless feeling Gregory experienced after climbing a flight of stairs has gone and at the age of 61 his appetite for football management burns as strong as ever.
They are not about all-too-clever business models and breathless "Internet time" (for which read going public as quickly as possible), but about highly complex enterprise software, often based on serious mathematics, that can yield real savings if deployed and used correctly.That is why these firms might actually grow up to become successful companies.
But those who get off their couch often prefer a rigorous workout, which explains the rise of triathlons, kitesurfing and other activities that leave participants breathless.
One guy, sweaty and breathless, with his helmet tucked under his arm, was swishing his baton through the air, re-enacting his best shots.
Emerging breathless and dazed back into Bestival without a drop of Guinness in me, it dawns that Shenanigans is actually a theatrical art happening designed by the Tourism Ireland to make going to Ireland seem like a riot of a time.
The half-time whistle was welcome for the Chiefs whose breathless captain, Dean Mumm, probably didn't appreciate having a microphone thrust beneath his nose by a television reporter as he left the pitch to explain where it had all gone wrong.
Sleater-Kinney: No Cities to Love A return to form for the reunited riot grrrl pioneers, filled to capacity with their signature crunching guitars and breathless, animated vocals.
Breathless puffs for a new smartphone or yet another way of "sharing" photographs or movies don't make up a useful signal any more – they're just noise.
The sun makes an appearance at last and then, quite suddenly, we spill from under the green canopy into a massive, undulating field of poppies (apparently, a breathless runner tells us, the poppies are harvested and turned into codeine "in a drug factory in Edinburgh").
But while this is certainly a more defensible position than breathless technophilia, or the blithe stories of triumphally self-regulating urban ecosystems the vendors themselves peddle, I happen to believe this is not the case.
They were all remarkably frank, breathless and impatient to tell their stories to an outsider.
