Swansea taking the lead just a minute into the game and approximately ten literal seconds after we had a goal disallowed was a pretty farcical situation, wasn’t it? And could have quite reasonably been followed by a total head-loss. And yet, I found myself mostly just having a good-old chuckle about it. Middlesbrough scoring three minutes into the game and with their first attack would have also caused great angst in seasons previous. And yet, and yet…

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