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broke into, “Are you watching, Ellis Short?” I doubted that very much. Diedhiou almost got his second a few minutes later but somehow he hit it wide from almost on the line. This prompted a chant of, “You’re not fit to wear the shirt!” Bristol made it 3-0 in the thirty-seventh minute when they broke down their right leaving our defence huffing and puffing before a cross came in and there was Diedhiou again to shoot home. Some defences are as tight as shite but ours is the opposite, which I suppose is just shite. A bloke behind us caught the ears of many when he exploded with, “Every one of them is fuckin’ spineless!” We managed to get through the rest of the half without conceding further and I was glad there was only a minute of stoppage-time. We’d clearly have to change something as it was looking like a 6-0 job. There was much booing as the sides went off.
As our side emerged after the break I could detect zero applause from our end and I’ve never witnessed that before. There were no changes in personnel for us but we started attacking more while Bristol could afford to sit back. Fletcher and Ejaria both had goal-attempts, nothing great but it was an improvement. Twelve minutes in I thought it was 4-0 but the ref ruled it out for handball and Diedhiou was yellow-carded. We won a couple of corners in a row, which was also encouraging, and things really looked up just before the hour when we replaced Oviedo with Lualua. He gave us some oomph in attack and ten minutes later we pulled one back with a bizarre goal. Asoro, who’d had very little change out of Bryan, finally got a good cross in from our right and it was
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