Spare a thought for the hapless Steve Cotterill who wakes up on this, the morning of his 48th birthday, to find that his lasting legacy at Nottingham Forest is to introduce us to the man who has replaced him as manager...

Paul Severn last contributed to LTLF back in 2006 when Gary Megson was still manager. We were pretty hopeless back then, and though things are looking remarkably brighter following the Al-Hasawi takeover, success is still going to be hard to come by...