CYCLOPS ; “if we played at our best every week, we wouldn’t be so inconsistent”

The editor summoned me . His face was its usual inscrutable self, pencil behind the ear (impresses nobody), jacket slung over the back of his chair and the obligatory coffee mug on his desk.”Cy”, he said, “ I am pondering giving you a new 4 year contract, Something like James McCarthy has and maybe about as useless, bu t you have to earn it . I want a fresh look from your column, get rid of this fixation with asterisks and get a new plan to put into action. Now off you go...