On Monday, February 11, 2013 5:25:08 PM UTC, Geoff Pearson wrote:
How can this be of any interest? A bloke who is 86 announces he is too

tired, nae wunder, to carry on work. He was too old when he started the

job. Shock? Very old bloke retires? Not much shock to me.

it's a shock because he's one of the first to admit he can't do the job, rather than carry on to the grave. At least I can admire him for that, there maybe other reasons to admire him but I don;t know them