Ring every church bell in the land! O, joyous day! Release the doves! Close the school and open the public houses, for on this day we toast the wondrous departure of Mr. Emery and his brand of non-attacking, non-defending football! Strike a commemorative coin, toss your infant in the air, hoist grandmamma aloft upon heaving shoulders, for he is gone! Has one ever had a chum who was with a highly unsuitable person? Anyone with a grubby monocle could see that the relationship was not working and yet the two of them stuck together, like limpets on a naval mine, until one day the mine goes off. Today, dear reader, the naval mine went off. A wise man once said that the things you initially...
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