Is this the start of a turnaround? Or just a brief interruption from despair?

I'm not going to write an introduction, because D already wrote the intro I wanted to write, and did so probably much more eloquently than I would have:

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• And so the countdown continues
• All for you, Brian
• Scaping the goats once again
• Outplayed and outcoached
• Reminiscing
• United escapes with a deserved victory
• The coundown has begun