They might have pulled the plug on the documentary a week too soon. It’s been a strange two weeks for Plymouth. First they sacked Wayne Rooney. Then, despite being managerless, they broke their transfer record to sign the Ghana international striker Michael Baidoo. Then they appointed the 42-year-old Austrian manager Miron Muslic to succeed Rooney. And then, to cap it all, with the interim duo of the first-team coach Kevin Nancekivell and the club captain Joe Edwards still in charge, they pulled off their most eye-catching result in years, Morgan Whittaker’s 82nd-minute goal giving them victory over Premier League Brentford.
In the nine away games before Rooney was sacked, Plymouth’s run of results read: 0-2, 0-4, 0-2, 0-4, 1-6, 1-1, 0-3, 0-1, 0-5. “How shit must you be? We’re drawing away,” the away fans were singing within five seconds – a line in gallows humour that earned a discernible laugh form the home end. But this really didn’t look like a side that has conceded 35 goals in 14 away league games this season.
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