Duncan Ferguson turned on his heels, scrunched up his face and began barking to himself in frustration. The life of a football manager is often cruel and, on his first day in charge of Forest Green Rovers, never was that more apparent.
The Everton icon, who was only appointed to his first permanent role on Thursday, looked set for the perfect start when his team took a first half lead through a super strike from Jordan Garrick and fought with everything they had to get their first win of 2023.
But in the six minutes of time that was added on at the end of the game, substitutes Rekeil Pyke and Ryan Bowman floored Forest Green and left Ferguson in a state of angry disbelief.