Happy birthday, Fire

Now that is how to throw a birthday party.

I watched this one on my laptop in bed feeling torpid, working on the composition of a post spitting derision on the club's 13th year just to give a sense of my state of mind at kickoff. I was expecting lung-bursting runs to nowhere, lots of gesticulating at officials, and a suspects' lineup of Fire defenders making the consternation gas-face.

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