The 3-letter word haunting football in August & September

New players, messy football, empty points columns. That’s when the word comes out. Three letters. The great early-season excuse.

So there’s the proof. It was about 8.30pm on Tuesday when it happened. Nobody knows how it happened and nobody has admitted doing it… but it definitely happened. Wrexham played well in the second half against Preston after being rubbish the first. And in that instance, a word that has been used thousands of times around Wrexham has been locked away unti…