Duncan Barkes

But to watch the entire game, as those of us who are lucky enough to watch the entire game, it will be an abiding, unsolvable mystery.

It is the JFK assassination saga, all over again, a parlor game.

You can sit and discuss and think and talk about it until you're blue in the mouth and the brain.

How on earth did we end up losing that one like that?

Six is the beginning of the ignominious scores.

Five is a lot of goals to concede.

Four is a lot of goals to concede.

We don't like three.

But when you get to six...

Well, next stop, seven or eight.

And then, you know, you're making headlines on the sports pages.

Everybody's eye is attracted to a game that's got a seven or an eight.

Actually, everybody's eye is attracted to a game whose result has got a six.

And today, that was us.

We're the side that conceded six.

I've got to have a slick swig of beer.

A lot of our players played really well, I thought.

A lot of our players played true to form.

Regan Poole is commanding.

He didn't make any glaring schoolboy errors.