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WHEN we look back at the 2021-22 season in years to come, we’ll probably reckon it was right up there with the very best of them.
Of course, there was one major difference from the season before (and the end of the one before that) – the fans were back in their droves. The colour, the atmosphere, the noise, the passion – it was all there again and perhaps a factor in why there was so much drama on the pit...