Déjà Vu as Le Prof makes fantasy come true again

IF I had cause last week to question the logic of le gaffer’s customary efforts to deflect all the criticism away from his own troops, I guess I got my answer in spades on Saturday.

Then again, it’s the beautiful game’s eternal propensity to confound all logic that makes it such an engrossing enigma. Enthralling, almost to the point of being unhealthy for some of us! I came away from Saturday’s game feeling so emotionally spent and having taxed the old ticker to such an extent, that I badly needed a quiet lie down, in a dark room.

With our team spirit having been stretched to breaking point and in the absence of our two principal strikers, there was nothing logical to my optimistic mood in advance of such a titanic clash.