Notts County’s hierarchy are livid because one of their players has left to sign for the mighty Bees, with the Magpies chairman John Armstrong-Holmes and their loveable gaffer Ian ‘the Brain’ McParland pouring scorn on their former left winger Myles Weston.

Armstrong-Holmes, whose name suggests he should be murdering someone in a drawing room in an Agatha Christie novel rather than running a Division Four football club, labelled Weston “a foolish boy” and McParland said the player would be “daft” to leave Meadow Lane.

Any Ealing (Road) Comedies archivists among you will know that when the Brain labels someone else daft the irony that hangs in the air is thicker than the smog above Beijing. I was hoping our promotion would mean that I would no longer be troubled by his cretinous outbursts, but alas, I was wrong.

By making such a fuss over Weston’s departure McParland and Armstrong-Holmes are implying a move to the Bees is not a good one for the player - an implication that is utter nonsense. Of course, we are not the biggest club going but at the present time I think it is fair to say we are a far better bet than Notts County.

McParland and Armstrong-Holmes seem to think that their club are second only to Real Madrid in terms of its attractiveness to aspiring players. Maybe they are letting all of that talk of a cash injection from the Middle East got to their heads?

Nevertheless, surely they can understand that the fact that Weston doesn’t want to spend another year rattling around in the basement division when he has been given the option to jump up a league - which player in League Two wouldn’t make the same call?

In signing Weston, whose fee will be set by tribunal, Scotty has followed his recent trend of bringing in players who impressed against us last season.

Weston was clearly highly rated by County, who offered him a three year deal and named him their player of the year, but it will be interesting to see how he will fit into the side bearing in mind Sam Wood has made the left side his own.

As impressive as the pacy Weston was against us it has been suggested that his final ball is fairly erratic. Does that sound familiar to anyone? Marvin Williams proved to be only a slightly better version of Ricky Shakes - I’m hoping Weston bucks that trend and is more that a slight improvement on the ‘Not So Marvellous’ Marvin.