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Nigel Thornton: on Mark Cooper's short reign, the seven-month itch and daredevil Dan Martin
He came, he saw, but he definitely didn't conquer. After just 76 days in charge at Posh, Mark Cooper was unceremoniously handed his P45 and shown the exit door at London Road.
He came, he saw, but he definitely didn't conquer. After just 76 days in charge at Posh, Mark Cooper was unceremoniously handed his P45 and shown the exit door at London Road.He took over somebody else's team, who were already embroiled in a relegation battle, and left them after 13 games, not surprisingly, still in one. Some people have said he was out of his depth. Well, if he was, he wasn't the only one.
Still, he's history now, so welcome and good luck to new boss Jim Gannon.
He's carved out a reputation as a no-nonsense manager, and that obviously extends to life off the pitch.
He refused to talk to Sky Sports before a Wembley play-off final in protest at poor service he received over a problem with his Sky+ box. Memo to our newspaper sales boss: Make sure he gets his ET on time.
I'm a bit worried that Mrs T has got the seven-month itch. The ink is barely dry on our wedding certificate and she's gone on a diet and has even joined a gym.
Overnight she has turned into a cross between that funny little woman on the telly who is always inspecting people's poo and the green goddess.
Incredibly, because I'm suffering from a prolonged bout of wounded knee (football injury), she is exercising more than me at the moment.
I can only imagine she is trying to get into shape in the hope of catching Aston's eye when JLS return to the city for their big gig on the Embankment.
In the course of researching this column (oh yes, I do!) I've just discovered that the funny little woman is called Gilian McKeith and her TV programme is called You Are What You Eat. I would just like to point out that therefore I am a chocolate biscuit (When you're not being a Yorkshire pudding - Slimline Mrs T).
While I must admit in the past year I've often felt the urge to take revenge on the greedy bankers who caused the recession, I can't help thinking that the woman who took a hammer to the windows of several bank branches in the city got off lightly.
Despite her handiwork causing a 10,000 repair bill, she got a suspended jail sentence and an ASBO, which, as her offences were at night, bans her from the city centre between 8pm and 8am.
Hasn't anyone noticed that for a big chunk of the year it's dark by 4pm?
Good luck to city daredevil Dan Martin, who is planning to swim the Atlantic and in the process raise 1 million for orphanages around the world.
It will be wet, cold and dangerous (a bit like certain parts of my hometown Leeds on a Friday night) but Dan seems pretty blas. Even the threat of sharks doesn't seem to bother him.
He said: "I'll be wearing an electro-magnetic pulse gadget on my foot that will give them an unpleasant shock if the sharks get within five metres of me.''
Are you sure you've got that right way round, Dan? Won't it be you getting the unpleasant shock if a shark gets so close you can smell tuna on its breath?
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