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Some articles just write themselves. Unfortunately that's not true, otherwise the Fiver would already be falling off its favourite stool in The Froth & Bile. But we'll be there in a jiffy (start pouring, Olga! And wash the glass first will you, it's been a while) because today's tale isn't very long. You could say it's short and bushy.
This weekend Torquay United travel to Firewall FC for a fixture that delivers a reminder that a football manager with the surname Knill is not as unlucky as you might think. In fact, Alan Knill is very fortunate to be still with us, as in September last year, when he was Firewall FC manager, Knill was pushed perilously close to extinction by a rodent whose reckless ignorance of the ground-breaking civic work of Mrs Fluffytail and Tufty almost caused Knill to, well, break the ground with his head. "It was quite serious at the time," explained Knill as he recalled one of sport's best-known squirrel and bicycle collisions. "I came off my bike at 20-whatever miles an hour, an ambulance was called and everything – I could have died."
Happily, Knill only suffered cuts and bruises and was thus free to resume work until sacked by Firewall FC a month later, with the club 22nd in the league. On Saturday he will return to Glanford Park for the first time since then, at the helm of 23rd-place Torquay, and home fans want to mark the occasion in suitable fashion. "Will anyone wearing any 'squirrel attire' be banned from entering the ground?" one fan enquired in a tweet to the club's official account today. "No you won't be banned," replied the club. "However, the club would prefer it if you didn't dress in 'squirrel attire'." Presumably because that would be acorny thing to do.

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