Duncan Barkes
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I suspect it's in all human beings to, when the chips are down, stand fast.
As Captain Aubrey says in Master and Commander, stand fast!
Our boys showed lots of footballing ability.
And they showed that they had an opportunistic streak a mile wide to nick a 1-0 win in the way that they did.
They were absolute card sharks, muggers, thieves, shoplifters.
They shoplifted three points, didn't they?
But never allow that to obscure the achievement of
of their digging in for 96 minutes, counting the extra time in the first half, 98 minutes, they dug in.
They dug in to hold their ground.
Even little Chaplin, who, you know, punches above his weight because he has to.
Even he was sticking his foot in there and sticking his foot in here and he was doing it.
It was a performance that I will carry with me at the front of my mind.