If Carlsberg did 57th birthdays, they'd give you a bacon sarnie for breakfast, some checked shirts as prezzies, a MyPie before the football and your team smashing the opposition 4-1. They might even chuck in you being wished happy birthday on the tannoy a couple of times, the kids coming back for the game from uni, and you winning a nice few quid backing the Ali Al-Hamidi hat trick. So it was on a beautifully Autumnal afternoon in Plough Lane, it quite simply couldn't have gone better.
And yet, how different did it look at quarter past three. I'm not gonna lie (as the kids say), we were absolutely rubbish. Perhaps Tranmere's kit had us and them thinking they were Real Madrid, they certainly resembled galacticos as they ran rings around us. I say ran, it was more strolled really. We rubbed our eyes and bumbed into each other like fresh out of bed students, trying to get to Macdonalds in time to get a breakfast bap before the midday switchover.
They led 1-0 and in truth it could've been more. It kind of summed us up that when Aaron Sasu put it on a plate for Armani Little to have a crack, he decided instead to do something else (I'm not that sure what "it" was in truth, even after watching it back). That though looking back was the turning point of the game. The groans of the fans had barely died down before the fella with the "Living with the Fury's" first name got another chance. No doubt taking the view that it could hardly end worse than what he did last time, he smashed it. After ricochet it flew past the bemused and confused Scouse stopper. The crowd went wild (well woke up anyway) and we were off.
From there, we put in the best performance I've seen from a Wimbledon team since we beat Oxford 3-1 under Robbo. We were magnificent, strong, quick, dangerous and committed in equal measure. It would have taken a team (with the greatest respect to them) significantly better than Tranmere to live with us. In truth it could have been a lot more than the eventual 4-1, they were happy to hear the final whistle.
Ali got a hat trick (course he did), Aaron Sasu lit the game up on his debut, Omar Bugiel was excellent and in fairness so was everyone. My best player on the day though was Armani Little, he's never played better for us than this, he was superb.
It's felt like we are about to see a break out performance for a couple of weeks now, here we had it. The simple truth is that if we play like this, there are only a handful of League Two teams that can live with us. Stop whispering, shout it from the rooftops, we are a very good team.
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