But poor investment returns and rising life expectancy have sent deficits in final salary schemes ballooning, forcing employers to consider radical surgery to pension provision.

This documentary follows his attempts to have radical surgery that would give him a 50/50 chance of survival.

But has a club ever gone through such radical surgery quite so fast?

Radical surgery will be needed on the public finances, and it will have to come sooner than that.

Colleagues looked at our transformed shape and wondered if we were perhaps undertaking radical surgery in preparation for entering a witness protection programme.