I haven’t seen the team play for a while as they haven’t been on TV for seemingly ages, and whereas it is still very early days for McCarthy obviously, two things struck me about the game last night.

Firstly, it was no classic by any means and yet the team seemed to play with a purpose that I haven’t seen for a while. I can’t put my finger on what it was exactly, and maybe it is just the players upping their game a bit due to the arrival of a new manager, but they all seemed to be a yard quicker and have that bit more dynamism that I haven’t noticed for a long time.

The second thing, and this is a purely subconscious reaction on my part, is that for the first time in a LONG time, I actually got off the sofa (twice!) and shouted when we scored! (a childlike reaction I know but something that I instinctively do when we score). And it made me realise that I can’t remember the last time that I (involuntarily) did that.

So we will definitely lose the next game 😂