Mickey

I didn't know what to expect.

We don't proclaim to be the championship experts, do we, mate?

But we watch our side and obviously they beat us 4-0 earlier this season, albeit Wes Harden played and other players featured.

We had injuries.

I think it was one of Taylor's first games as well, I think, if I'm not mistaken, or maybe the game that brought Taylor in afterwards.

But, you know, going into that, I was worried, obviously, with Leonard playing right back.

Can you do a job?

You've done exactly what you wanted to do, right?

on seven a side and four that's the way to play it and just literally back foot down and just shoulder in and yeah that's that's the way to do it I can't believe you've prepared this back to yourself when we're trying to praise Ryan Leonard for his performance today and his tackle and bringing it back to yourself mate it says more about yourself than anything else right but no I'm

Yeah, it's the Mickey Simpson show, isn't it?

But I think it's worth name-checking, though, because obviously you see the team line-up, you're sceptical, you're thinking, fuck, we've lost on the weekend, an injury to the back four, you know, the questions before the game, everyone are coming up to the ground talking about it and a few bods I know and stuff, they sit around me, it's like,

oh, there you go, that's just what you need.

And if Crum gets a book in today, then you might have a prospect of a line-up of Leonard right centre-half and Danny Mac right back, right?

And all them questions come out and then it's like, ah, it's a must win.

You just feel the pressure building before the game, right?

Leonard done what we want Leonard to do, right?

I think I said to you walking away from then down the Oldham Road, it was like a Murray Wallace performance a couple of seasons ago where

He doesn't play a lot of games, but he's going to come into the side and he's going to get asked questions.

And he's, you know, I can't remember the last appearance Leonard made from the start.

And he's come in and just done his job, right?