Of course the first visit to Wembley and that goal was special. Then the harsh reality for a club of our size is you are going to get outplayed and often battered every week, and 17th place is seen as a great season. (financially it is, after 9 months it takes it toll on your enthusiasm)
I dont mind that reality . It should create a togetherness and siege mentality. Sadly i don think the stadium helps at all in trying to create an atmosphere, or much enjoyment, all seater etc.
At BP they were fine for the first game of the season with smellies in the runnel. Downhill thereafter and black paint pealing off the pee wall.
You held it for hours to avoid that stench. But sometimes you just need to go... Often in the dark. Someone even pissed on me, clearly on purpose. I couldn't see, it was so dark but there were howls of derision(bet it was Chazz). Those years were good, but they weren't that ****ing good. Nostalgia plays it's part.
Couldn't avoid one last pee as I was travelling back to Essex. Recall it got so bad that you had to hold your breath and rush in and hope there was a spare place or else it was out and fill your lungs again.
Actually, thinking about it, I mighta been a bit tired after 2 days away down south, and I confused him with Pearson. I tend to put them both in the same basket of ****ery tbh. Just for clarification, you agree Duffen would not be good for us and should stay the **** away from our club?
Well obviously he's better than slimy Ehab but if it's a choice between him and pretty much anyone else, of course he should stay away.
When i was a teenager getting up on a Saturday morning had a buzz about it when i was gonna City. That seems to diminish the older you get when other things get in the way. Thats why getting in the school kids us essential.
I've spent too many afternoons at Hartlepool, Rotherham, Lincoln, Carlisle to get overly nostalgic about it. Some fun days out, but decades of playing these minnows has ruined the sports fans of this city. Some craved glory so ****ed off to support a club from another city, some hankered after the lower league comfort but a large majority just gave up the ghost completely. We had about 30 years or more of this, enough to lose two generations of fans, never to recover them (or their kids) back into supporting their local team. In addition to that, football in the last 10 years has become omnipresent, it's never been so easy to see top class games every night of the week on tv, where you can admire fantastic players, without the pain of losing, the frustration of seeing your team underperform, the hassle of getting tickets, taking time off work. It's so easy and painless to be a 'general footy fan'. As you can see from some of the ones who post on here, they are sucked into the SKY/BT mindset....full of 'assists' and stats, and this draws many of em away from supporting one team through thick and thin. Supporting your local club is a dying art...to be usurped by being a 'footy consumer', buying the packaged product and having the subtle surreptitious brainwashing that comes with it. We now have people on here who know us as 'Hull', ffs. If that's not a damning indictment, I don't know what is.
Jesus christ im finding myself in 100% agreement with you ( I must lay down) on this post. Im affraid its a kind of snobbery in football terms people thinking they know more than you because they support what id describe as a Franchise Brand Club. Ive even been patronised by friends that support Manchester Utd and Liverpool when we got to FA Cup final saying enjoy your little day out.