On Tuesday, my mind really was in the gutter….

We’ll get on to Brentford momentarily but first, an odd question. How much clutter can the average football fan’s gutter hold?

Its one I’ve contemplated before (regular readers may recall last season’s programme article on a similar subject) but it resurfaced on Tuesday night as I struggled to stay awake during England’s ‘workmanlike’ performance in Ukraine.

Listening to Southampton supporter Christian O’Connell on Absolute Radio this morning, he posed the question ‘The England game was so boring that…?” and then invited listeners to complete the sentence.

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 Thanks for reading over the course of the campaign. For now I need to make space on this page for any follow up.  The ‘close season’ / World Cup columns continue in full, further on in this site.