There was the inevitable certainty that having been made the favourite to become Sir Alan Sugar’s next business partner on The Apprentice, Brighton’s Robert Goodwin faced an early exit from the series.

Coupled with his narcisistic and overblown assesment of his own abilities he was from the outset facing imminent exclusion.

That he thought he and the rest of the entreprenuerial wannabees could pull the wool over Sir Alan’s eyes was risible.

The latter founded his success the hard way in the school of hard knocks, by hard graft, risk taking and by thinking on his feet.

There is no God given right to succeed in life and as the remaining contestants will learn there is no substitute for experience! For all the shortcommings of the participants The Apprentice is compelling and humorous viewing!

Robin Tulley, Honey Croft, Hove