“SOMEONE SAID WYCOMBE WERE LIKE AN ELEPHANT IN A TREE. THAT WAS MUSIC TO MY EARS”
FourFourTwo has an apology to make, and thankfully, Gareth Ainsworth is ready to accept it.
A year ago, FFT gathered together our panel of Football League experts and predicted the League One table for 2019-20. We tipped Wycombe to finish 23rd, above only beleaguered Bury – a club that ultimately wouldn’t even start the campaign.
Nearly 12 months later, the Chairboys were toppling Oxford in the play-off final to reach the Championship for the first time in their 133-year history. It was a truly remarkable achievement, and FFT’s prediction table had never been far from their gaffer’s thoughts. He had pinned it on his office wall, and even referred to it in interviews – particularly after Wycombe went seven points clear at the top. Luckily for us, the 47-year-old is also one of the nicest men in football, and wasn’t likely to bear a grudge...
First things first, Gareth – we got it wrong, we’re sorry...
It’s all right! [] When I spoke about it in interviews, it was always slightly tongue in cheek. I think someone had sent it to me and said, ‘This is what magazine are predicting’. We’ve proved the odds wrong for so long and it doesn’t affect me too much – but the more the season went on, the better it looked that we were defying
