In this glorious game of ours, one of the most popular – nay, unanswerable – pieces of brinksmanship is that ‘x’ is, truly, ‘a football town’. More often than not, that’s shorthand for “because it’s miles from anywhere and there’s nothing else to do”, but still it sustains itself as the consoling, bullet-proof myth against footballing incompetence. Because however poor a team may be, they still have that umbilical link with their community that means, really, in the grand scheme of things, so much more…

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