Mr. Bower's remedy is to have potential successors run divisions away from headquarters — perhaps overseas — where they can prove their worth without being overshadowed by the boss.
Gareth Ainsworth's side won 13 times on the road in the regular league season and picked up more points than any of the other 91 sides in the top four divisions away from home.
It is as if the Yankees were suddenly consigned to spend a summer in Class A. With the Rangers three divisions away from their normal home in Scotland's Premier League, and no quick path back to the top, the first weeks of their 2012-13 season have been either depressing or humorous, or both, depending on one's point of view.
FC United, after their latest promotion to the National League North (the new name for the Conference North), are just two divisions away from the Football League.
Martin van Creveld believes that the British did everything in their power to scuttle all attempts at a separate peace between the Greeks and the Italians in order to keep the Greeks fighting so as to draw Italian divisions away from North Africa.
The officials said the Army's proposal would also give the guard divisions the role of filling in when an active division is pulled away from an overseas base or from a peacekeeping mission like those in Bosnia or Kosovo.
Those nights in July and August, when the division's slipping away from you, are incredibly painful for the people making these decisions.
But we live in a time when merchants of division draw us away from mutuality and toward the undoing of democracy itself.
This so-called "phoenix club" was accepted into the North West Counties Football League second division, six promotions away from The Football League, and secured promotion in each of its first three seasons, twice as league champions.
Beatty gradually turned towards the east so his ships could cover the Grand Fleet as it deployed into battle formation, but he mistimed his manoeuvre and forced the leading British division to manoeuvre away from the Germans.
