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Can we learn any lessons from the Morecambe debacle? Well, yes... lessons simply are not being learnt

Fourteen minutes gone, and the task in front of Swindon had mutated from a scalable pile of mud into Scafell Pike. The County Ground retreated back into its silent anger. This was self-flagellation. Very public, very predictable self-flagellation.

25.11.24, 16:18 Updated 05.06.25, 20:10 8 Minute Read

Sam Morshead

Sam Morshead

Right then, have you managed to calm down yet? No? Don’t worry, you won’t be alone.

Forty-eight hours on, and the nature and significance of home defeat by Morecambe continues to wash over Swindon Town supporters.

So, aside from the precariousness of it all. And aside from frustrations at the general direction of the club, are there any tangible lessons that can be learned from the result, from a footballing perspective?

What was perhaps most disappointing of all on Saturday was that, yet again, so much of what happened was predictable.

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