Duncan Barkes

Because he knew that if he played it long, it would come back again.

So there was some fairly basic tactics there, not top-end, top-range tactics, but there were certain tactics that were going on.

And that was one of them, for sure.

It was a terrible pitch.

There were a lot of back passes.

Odeluga Ofaya, a giant of a man, was being marked by Conor Chaplin at corners, which was hilarious.

Their goal was a fluke.

We drew that 0-0, but the records will show that we lost it 1-0 and the league table, well thank goodness we got a game in hand on absolutely everybody, two games in hand on almost everybody.

down amongst the dead men.

Just one thing I want to mention very quickly, and I won't dwell on it because it's a bit pedantic, and that is that I watched the game and I saw there was not a single legal throw-in.

No.

Yeah.

Every single throw-in that was taken by both sides, and there would have been dozens of them, were illegal.

The law states very clearly that the ball has to be taken behind the head.

And then over the head.

And absolutely nobody did that.

Everybody, all the players, placed the ball just above the top of their head.

Like, you know Callum Lang's goal celebration where he puts his fingers in his ears and twiddles his fingers?

They had the ball there, right above their heads, not behind their heads, which is what the law says.

And then they would just sort of flick it forward.