There you are putting plenty of thought into it but should you decide to fly the flag a certain type of person will look down on you from their ivory tower and categorise you as one or all of right wing, of low intellect, easily influenced, and most likely living in what they consider an undesirable location. You won't need to look far to find them. That isn't a one-sided criticism because as much as each of us considers ourselves as having an even view we are all self-important, unwittingly influenced and generally lazy.

I am of the 'you will own nothing' conspiracist persuasion and whether I am right in any way or not it has given me interest in historic topics I had never looked into before. Whereas in 1819 the post Napoleonic war British government had feared revolution and dealt with it in the spirit of Peterloo the 1919 government was equally scared of a revolution (hands-up if you knew that) but this time it spawned an improvement in housing quality and quantity rather than butchering the plebs who had recently fought a war in its name only to return to a shithole and oppression. If you had put a farthing then on something happening in 2019 you would be quids in.

In between times Engels and Marx provide an insight into the haves and have nots with Manchester and ‘one of the duskiest, smokiest holes in the whole of the industrial area’, Stockport, at the forefront of their works. (Source: Engels, Marx, Jacket – 1842.) I have watched plenty of Tommy Robinson videos because I felt I should. Who can blame the young men of fighting age who head to the UK and Europe because if Spain offered you and I the same benefits we would be over there before we could get our County branded sombreros on. The only difference is that we would integrate! At least to the extent that we would tolerate their piss weak lager. Unknown to them, our immigrants come with the side benefit of hitherto unavailable public money magically appearing then just as magically disappearing into corporate and NGO pockets at a dazzling rate the like of which has not been seen since, er, the covid 19 bonanza or the 2008 financial crash. Whatever else they are our immigrants are certainly an effective diversion whilst housing stock is bought up by organisations that provide no value to the country and who are happy to pay a premium for houses as they will be collecting rent off them forever. When the landlords decide rental prices should rise they will rise and if the tenant cannot afford it then muggins me and you will be funding the difference via benefits paid from our tax while the newspapers will publish articles about benefits scroungers so we remember who not to blame.

All of which brings me back to my conclusion – I am as worried about our second half performances as DC but will afford him all the time he needs to get the players’ embedded in our new County ways.