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It's a word. A small word but one that is becoming more and more useful every day. That word is mimophant. It means someone who tramples over others dishing out abuse, but shies away from any reply.

These people are thick-skinned (like an elephant), but recoil in horror if anyone dares to stand up to them (like the plant Mimosa).

If that definition isn't helping, think back to last Saturday. Think back to the chanting, sweary, Blackthorn and Burberry-clad hordes processing through Swindon beside a thin florescent line.

Then fast forward about an hour-and-a-half, to when Nathan Thompson jumped. The terror inflicted by that one lone man jumping, some distance away, caused mass panic in 2,000 red-breasted comrades. No wonder the police had to be told.

It's been the story of the week, but it isn't the most interesting. That was in the contrast on Saturday between the players' response to the derby. City's Steve Cotterill's reported call for “fire in their bellies and ice in their heads” seemed to have filled his charges' brains with little more than rage.

Mark Cooper's men, by contrast, were controlled. They didn't react to the numerous heavy tackles. Instead they kept the ball, and with it their calm.

It is something that sports psychologists call mindfulness. The ability to recognise thoughts of pressure or passion and in that moment to ignore them. To train your brain, like your body, to achieve a balance between skill and aggression. To only use the emotions you need.

Doctor Mike Gervais, a man who has helped space-jumper Felix Baumgartner and Olympians to gold medals, refers to it as the ‘razor’s edge’.

For Gervais, releasing that emotion after the final whistle is necessary and right. He compares the unspent emotion stored during a game to “being in a bar fight, but without the fight actually taking place”. So, he sees post-match celebration being entirely healthy - if not always dignified.

After all, if some people can't be magnanimous before their defeat, why should anyone bother being magnanimous once they have won the victory?