Just when you’ve got used to the slog of three-match weeks… Just when every game is more important than the one before for the final finishing position… Then… THUD.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it […].

*sigh* This losing lark is not much fun.

It’s been an extremely disappointing February and start to March for both academy sides.

I am writing this following the Sheffield Wednesday game, so the collective shell shock is still reverberating.

It was an @NCFCPain night for the ages.