I wasn't the only one to draw allusions with Kevin Keegan when Paul Murphy was reappointed Welsh Secretary almost two months ago to the day. The parallel was clear: both were veterans returning to their old stomping ground much to the surprise of everybody who had assumed they had long since been put out to pasture.
Well here's another striking similarity. Murphy, we are told, may resign from the Cabinet over Gordon Brown's refusal to offer MPs a free vote over a new law to allow more experiments on embryos. Murphy and Keegan returned to their old jobs within days of each other. If Mr Brown refuses to budge and Newcastle United don't get wins over Fulham and Tottenham in the next week, might they also depart within days of each other?