MARTIN FLOOK was joint chairman of Bristol Rovers in 1985 along with a comedy TV character whose recent return has coincided with another successful era for the Gas. It may be one of the great understatements ever in Rovers' history to say that his time at the helm was not a massive success. He resigned at the beginning of March 1986 and was followed a couple of weeks later by his mate the microwave magnate. A month afterwards Rovers played their last ever game at Eastville, with Gasheads not knowing where (or if) they would be playing the next season. Luckily, Denis Dunford picked up the pieces.

For these reasons, and also the fact that his surname is suitably close to another word beginning with F which sits nicely in front of "off", we give this man the tribute we feel he deserves by dedicating a weekly, monthly or maybe annual (in short, we'll update it when we've got a suitable candidate) award for disservices to Bristol Rovers or football in general …