After all, Merrington is the man who moulded Alan Shearer, Matthew Le Tissier, Rodney and Raymond Wallace, as well as the likes of Neil Maddison and Tommy Widdrington.
For the record, that group comprised Laura Sandys, Margot James, Stephen Dorrell, Ben Gummer, Ben Wallace, Richard Ottaway, Bob Walter, Robert Buckland, Neil Carmichael, Caroline Spelman, Nicholas Soames, Peter Luff, Jane Ellison, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, and Kris Hopkins.