Fuzzy, he didn’t slag off all the squad. We were haemorrhaging money because under Hamann we had signed a load of Pooh players who didn’t want to know and didn’t want to move because they were on salaries far bigger than they’d get elsewhere.

He was doing his best to win winkle them out of the club so we could bring in players. He did it in part by slagging them off in public using the social loafers tag to put pressure on them to go.

Fearn and McShite wanted Jim out so they could play football manager. Jim wanted a CB and FB. He had one lined up from Citeh FOC and another HtH had said they’d bank the wages of but it was blocked by those running the club.

He came back the second time to help save the club and he kept us up that first season and would have done so again without interference in exceptionally difficult circumstances. He should be lauded for his efforts not derided for them.