Mr. Leven asks to leave…

Date: 28th September 2024

Mr. Leven asks to leave…

It’s a clash…

Will he stay or will he go now?

Mr. Leven has a decision to make…

Picture the scene…

It is a bleak October morning at the Dandy Dons Day Care Centre. The trees are beginning to shed their leaves and one employee, Mr. Leven is wondering if, like the leaves the time has come for him to shed the tree that has nurtured him for so long.

Conflicted, he casts a lonely shadow over the sand pit as he gazes out the window at the North Sea and wonders why, each October they take the weans out to the beach to swim in the arctic cold water when they could just pop down to the local swimming baths and do the same exercises in the warmth.

But of such activities, resilience is formed.

And hypothermia, according to the doctor who came in to give a bit of advice last season when three of the weans ended up in A and E.

When the new guy came in, there was a hope that this folly would stop, but all he has done is institute a sauna beforehand to give the weans a different feeling when they go for a dip. Never mind that everyone told him that the distance between the sauna and the sea was so great that, by the time the weans got to the sea, any warmth was long gone and the benefit of his Scandi methods were as effective as former manager Mr. Warnock in a staff team talk.

It has been a tough transition to the new guy at the Dandy Dons Day Care Centre, but a highly successful one…

Of late there has been plenty of success since Mr. Build A Success no a Bear Wi a Sair Heid, Mr. Thelin has been the manager, but Mr. Leven has a tough decision to make.

He is being poached… and he feels like he is being deep fried.

Twice, when the chips have been down, he has stepped in for the Dandy Dons Day Care Centre and managed the gaff when some ambitious guy left to try his hand elsewhere or the owners decided that profits were down, and they needed a change of direction. Mr. Leven was always there to step in, but now he needs to work out if he needs to be the author of his own destiny and leave for the Perth job.

As he turns to look over the Kingdom of which he was the deputy manager, the second-in-command, the secondary chief, he reflected on the triumphs and disasters he had witnessed over the many years he had been there. There were plenty of both but was it time, now, to wrap up that part of his time at the nursery and really move on? Was it truly time? Could he work out what was likely to happen next if he took what had been called the biggest poisoned chalice in the country?

Was he feart?

Mr. Leven was never feart.

A cup of coffee sat getting cold next to him as he contemplated what was going to come next. He had forgotten it had been there and drinking it now reminded him as he winced at its taste, that perhaps the time had come to throw the coffee away and grasp this Perth nettle. As part of his efficiency drive, new manager Mr. Thelin had replaced the Nespresso machine that Mr. Leven loved with a kettle and instant. Mr. Leven would not miss that experience.

Mr. Leven started to walk towards the office. In there Mr. Thelin was working on the staff rota for October. If Mr. Leven needed time to go and speak to the people in Perth, he needed time off and he needed to request it using the STO1/2024/25 form. And he had it in his hand right now. He was going to do it.

Mr. Leven was about to take the first tentative steps towards his own gaff.

But he needed Mr. Thelin to sanction it, approve it and say yes.

By the time he arrived at the door of the office he felt like he needed to have had plenty of espresso to get him through the next few minutes but there was not time like the present and the cold instant was going to have to do for him to build himself up with courage.

Mr. Leven took a deep breath, opened the door and walked straight in, form in hand.

All the Scandi overlord of the Dandy Dons daycare did was lift his head, motion for the form, take it, sign it, smile, and hand it back.

And with that Mr. Leven was on his way to Perth for a conversation that could change his career…

 

Whilst the author asserts his right to this as an original piece of work, there is no evidence that Aberdeen boss Jimmy Thelin has changed the Nespresso machine in Pittodrie for a kettle, so, this is clearly a piece of fiction.

The fact is that after much speculation, Aberdeen have given permission for some time manager, fulltime assistant, Peter Leven to speak to St. Johnstone about their managerial vacancy. Ayr United boss, Scott Brown, following a call to his former boss, Brendan Rodgers has pulled out the race to replace Craig Levein so the field is wide open, except if Leven does not get it, many reporters shall have egg firmly planted upon their coupons.

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