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Viva Espana

I'm beside a swimming pool in Majorca feeling pretty chilled out for once. Maybe it's my relaxed mood which has shaped the tone of this blog. Basically, this, unusually for me, is an appeal for cool heads. The fallout from Friday's debacle at Alloa is still raging on various United platforms and it is not a pretty sight. Friday was horrendous, we started really badly (or they started quickly, or both) and it was no surprise when they took the lead, carving us open with a through ball followed by a cut back to an inrushing striker. We looked pedestrian whereas they played a similar high-tempo style to Ayr. At this point though, I'll correct that, they played a similar high-tempo style to us; the us who scored 6 against Morton last week, the us who scored 6 against Dundee, the us who should've scored 6 by half time against Dunfermline, the us who scored 5 against Inverness. This tempered my thinking somewhat. We turned in similar performances to Friday night under b