Yes, chances missed, but stick behind your team
NAILED it, with a game to spare. So there we are, another season successfully negotiated. If only we could have been there for the lap of honour, or allowed to gather in large numbers for the open top bus parade.
Seriously though, nobody can deny it’s been another difficult and disappointing season, greatly removed from the heady heights of the Premier League. And yet for some, according to phone ins and online posts, it’s obvious what needs to happen. Get rid of the coach (again) as he’s out of his depth, get rid of the Owner as he’s got no money, get rid of the players as they’re not good enough! And as for Dean Hoyle, we’ll he started it!
What’s more, many of these ‘fans,’ quite possibly those who swelled the numbers when we joined the Premier League, say they won’t be going next season.
You can’t help feeling an opportunity has been missed as, after one huge step forward, we now seem to have taken more than one step backwards. But perhaps a bit of reflection is called for. Over a season has been lost now to the pandemic with still no certainty as to what will happen in the near future. How professional sportsmen and women go out there week after week and perform to the best of their abilities in soulless empty stadiums is beyond me. Yet they do and the efforts of all concerned to allow us to stay at home with the option to watch every game live is greatly appreciated, certainly by me.
So how do we want our club to be run? Like Blackpool or Charlton for example who have been in dire straights over recent years, or Bury who have gone to the wall. Like the so called Big 6, who see money as the ultimate goal, or maybe Real Madrid or Barcelona, fantastically successful on the pitch but so much in debt that they see a European closed shop as their only way out.
We have had, and currently have, owners who care, a community driven club and extremely competitive admission prices (frozen for a three-year period for those who have continued to back the club). Memories can be very short. I’ve been a supporter since 1968 and there have been much darker times than these. Perhaps the numbers will fall next season but I’ve already got my ticket. After all, you can’t abandon your team, not if it truly is ‘your team.’
Blast from the past
IT appears Mr Woolley (Feedback,
May 1) is an expert on
PMs’ dodgy dealings, castigating Boris left right and centre.
Perhaps he can enlighten us on Harold Wilson and Lord Kagan. I believe Lord Kagan funded the upgrading of Harold’s office.
Maybe Mr Woolley can find some dirt to dig up there and start calling Harold some rude names. With a bit of luck he may come to realise that politicians move in strange ways and call them all rude names.
Unless I am mistaken Kagan received his knighthood at the end of Harold’s term in office.