Like deja vu all over again

I surely can't be the only one who is feeling a bit like Bill Murray this morning.

Spend big, lose at Wembley, lose manager, start again. Repeat until you want to kill yourself in order to escape this neverending football hell.

And why do I get the feeling that, if Gary Brabin does join the unnamed league team interested in making him their new manager, our chairman won't be too disappointed to see him go?

"Hopefully Gary will show some loyalty to us. We gave him a job when he'd only been in football for five or six games," Chairman George told Radio Cambridgeshire this morning. "We gave him a huge budget last year, more money than Jimmy Quinn the year before. I just hope he stays around and tries to build again for next year."

I always think the concept of loyalty in football is a bit of a laughable one. George allegedly wanted to sack Brabin in January when we were going through a rough patch, and if we start next season badly - not an inconceivable scenario given that we'll have a much reduced budget - I'm sure he would have no qualms about giving his manager the boot. The Brabinator's stock is quite high at the moment, so if he gets offered a better job then why would loyalty come into it? If he stays and then gets fired next season suddenly his CV doesn't look quite so impressive, and his managerial career could be over before it has hardly begun.

And if Mr Rolls really does want him to show some loyalty, perhaps he should give the manager some credit for the job he's done, rather than making him sound like some kind of charity case who we dragged from the gutter out of the goodness of our hearts.

I'll do a match report on yesterday later. Suffice to say it is unlikely to make good reading.