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If you take one thing away from this week\u2019s article, I want it to be the virtue of getting home from the football on a Saturday, turning off your phone and putting it in a drawer. No hugging. No learning. Just a good old-fashioned ignore and forget.<\/p>
And another thing, I\u2019m not rattled. Please don\u2019t put in the newspaper that I got rattled.<\/p>
I\u2019m Misery Hunters\u2019 Andrew Christie<\/u><\/a>, and this is The Back Five.<\/p> <\/p> I\u2019m not sure if you know, but a few months ago I invested heavily in the phrase \u2018a proverbial game of two halves<\/em>\u2019 so thanks to media coverage of this shitshow<\/u><\/a> I\u2019m actually very rich now.<\/p> I\u2019m going to use the money to buy a big hammer and knock the memory out of my stupid, optimistic, \u2018this will definitely be fine<\/em>\u2019 head.<\/p> <\/p> Eleven years on. Still the most beautiful<\/u><\/a> day. <\/p> <\/p> \u201cDemoted not relegated<\/em>\u201d, they cried. They cried it down in the Championship. They cried it on their BBC documentary<\/u><\/a>. They cried it at every subsequent mention of big bad Jon Obika slotting the ball past Bobby Zlamal in the Hearts goal - four years ago this week<\/u><\/a>. <\/p> Really good fun. 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