Illustrates what good balls the two crosses from Brittain were.

We need not to lose this one.

By hook or by crook we need points from the next two games.

Yeah, he’s quick over 10 yards but he’s not fast over 30/40 yards. He has to play nearer the goal and where the action is.

Skeeter Davis - The End Of The World

I like him, I always have to be honest. When he’s “ on it “ he’s a handful for any defence. We’d be foolish to let him go out of the door without making a real effort to sign him.

Maybe our luck has changed. That was a really poor penalty. The idea of the stuttering approach to the ball is to get the keeper moving one way and then pass the ball to the other side. Johnson did the first part ok but inexplicably passed the ball straight at Pears ! When did one of our keepers last save a pen ? On such small events your season can change. Fergie was one loss from being fired and got a stroke of luck. Ditto with Howard Kendall in his first spell at Everton. They were losing 1-0 in the FA Cup at Oxford and all the talk was of Kendall being sacked in the morning. Then an Oxford player inexplicably passed a ball back to the keeper that went straight to Adrian Heath in front of goal. He slotted it home and they got a draw. They won the replay and then they were off and running, winning trophies etc.

I can still see all the goals now, clear as a bell.

He out jumped Sir Keith but the German guy had only just come on, Keith had been playing in the baking heat for two hours. My mum could have kept the first one out. Peter Bonetti went to pieces after that.

Hedges got up well to put the ball back into the mixer for Sammi’s goal. For those of a certain age it reminded me of England v West Germany in the 1970 World Cup.

It might only be for today but when I saw how the team was set up I saw a line up that made sense for once. No square pegs in rounds holes and a shape that plays to our strengths. Long May it continue.

He’d have other clubs interested for sure.

I like it. Wait whilst Pep finds out.

That’s why we have 5 subs. They could field a second team that would probably end up in the top six.

Did we have a right footer on the right wing and a left footer on the left wing ? Maybe this radical tactic will catch on !

In the great scheme of things that’s pretty meaningless.

But playing them up there together was the master stroke. Playing one of them on their own would be just like playing Gally up there on his own.

I don’t think we’ve any choice. He’ll have only really met the players this morning. The timing of the appointment hasn’t been in our favour.

They’ve got the right mixture of possession and direct play that can get you out of this division without breaking the bank. They’ve got a very good coach/manager.

Will Sammi be fit ?

if I was him I’d be in the stand today taking notes. Leave todays game to Johnson and Lowe.

Unfortunately I can’t paint a picture where we win. I’d take a draw now. As you say too much work to be done in the future for things to gel overnight. I’d be delighted to be wrong.

Like any player, he’s good at some things and not good at others. So you put him in the position in the set up where he can do most good. Taking it off the back four - not really. Rampaging around in centre field - that’s more his style. If you want a team of tikka tikka passing players - he won’t fit in.

Yeah, and the manager that does it will be hailed as a ground breaking genius.

It is a different game.