The story of Harry Redknapp, a hypnotist and ‘Britain’s best worst team’ sounds as though it should be confined to the world of make-believe.
But this is the very true story of how Cwm Albion, Swansea’s oldest football team, have turned their desperate fortunes around.
Last season, the Welsh minnows lost every game and ended the season with a goal difference of -191. Those struggles were nothing new, either. Goalkeeper Jamie Macdonald has never kept a clean sheet in the decade he has been at the club.
It looked as though they needed a miracle to turn them around, but a former Premier League manager with nearly 1,400 games under his belt was a good place to start.