"He's complained about not having the biggest squad and he's had a lot of injury problems but he has been able to replace them – for instance, by bringing the two lads in from Brentford, Nico Yennaris and Sam Saunders, who've played a big part in the final 10 games for them – so he can obviously spot a quality player and that's key to a manager.
Obviously, spots in the team opened up but there were, as we shall see, deeper historical forces subconsciously at play as well.
I played Bass with Tony Knights Chessmen during '66/67 at, as I remember, 3 or 4 Ricky Ticks venues in the Middlesex area - all in the same evening!- and finishing up at the Flamingo doing the 4 til 5, or 5 til 6 (am, obviously!) spot.
This was at least three months before we were in Wizard [Sound Studios, Belfast] so obviously someone spotted its potential.
Benjamin Robbins has been speaking to HuffPo's Jimmy Maymann, "the best dressed man in media" according to Mary Keane-Dawshe (she obviously hasn't spotted my black shirt / black suit Johnny Cash ensemble yet), about audiences.
It's an interesting move from the company, which obviously feels it has spotted a gap in the market between smartphones and dedicated game consoles.
They got as far as the shipping lanes between Vietnam and Singapore, where a container ship of the Danish Maersk line spotted their obviously unseaworthy vessel, picked up the passengers, and dropped them in Singapore.
The tricky job, obviously, is to spot the difference between such bear market rebounds and the start of a real bull market.Valuation does not provide much help at the moment.
"I used to make fun of those obviously aspirational spots for being overly glossy and phony," she said.
