They may have finished 11 points behind West Ham and lost both league games, conceding eight goals, but the Tangerine dream remains alive. Holloway said: “We won’t get a bigger test than West Ham but we’ve got one chance. If you’d asked me last summer when I lost all those players I’d have said this was a dead duck, but we don’t lie down at this club.”

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If an idea flopped, a subordinate would be bowler-hatted out of the gang; if the idea was successful, then it was Ted Donnell done it.

My munshi, a Mohammedan, gave us one morning a long account of what he believed, and what religious observances he had to follow. … The munshi smiled, as is the way of munshis, whatever answer is given them, but he asked no more.