Coach on the couch

I WANTED a sofa for my office so players could walk in, sit down and talk to me. I found one in a way that somehow sums up what I’ve discovered at my new club. I decided I’d give everyone who bought a season ticket the chance to meet me in my office if they wanted and 270 of the 300 who bought them filed through in one day. I happened to mention at one stage that we could use a sofa. A fan said he was getting rid of his so we sent a van around. His replacement sofa hadn’t arrived when we turned up. The fan hadn’t actually got around to telling his wife. They insisted we take it anyway. Turned out she was a Chesterfield fan, too.