When Ian Bogie was axed as Gateshead manager on Monday, seven-and-a-half months had passed since we last saw a managerial sacking in the Blue Square Bet Premier.
The part-time footballers of Hastings United were in hot water with their manager last week, but it was nothing to do with the Pilot Field lads’ performances.
It was appropriate for Wayne Hatswell to announce he was hanging up his boots on FA Cup first round weekend, exactly 12 years after his name first came to prominence on Match of the Day.
Last Sunday Dorchester Town player-coach Mark Jermyn used the ESPN cameras to tell his boss at the insurance firm where he works that he might be nursing a sore head the following morning.
Critics of football’s loan market are many, and I have been one of them when a team lends a player to a club in the same division, but heavily subsidises their wages.