The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.

I've decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully - in about 200 years time.

Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.

Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right.

And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.

I gave my players a version of the same message at ten-to-three every Saturday: 'I would shoot my granny right now for three points this afternoon.' They knew how important it was to give everything in the cause of victory. Every time. That's why my granny enjoyed more lives than my cat.