Good question. I'd probably include the 60's in that as well. Maybe a combination of interest in the game after 1966, highlights on Match of the Day/ITV on a Sunday, etc I'm only guessing though.
Good question – I'm sure there are many reasons but I think it’s mainly a case of living memory. For instance, for a lot 15/16 year olds across the country, they won’t see us a perennial second or third tier strugglers as historically we’ve been– they’ll probably perceive us as some sort of PL yo-yo team – just like I’d perceive someone like Norwich when I was a kid. Plus, in that period we saw the development of the wider coverage (or however DT spells it) of the game – players/clubs gaining broader fame. We also saw British clubs winning European trophies too enhancing the glory element. My generation grew up with tales of the 1970s (the decade I was born) and we carry those stories. But they’ll die and focus will switch (as we see with perceptions of pre 1992 top flight football) as the game grows older.
It might just be because they're the teams that were big when many of us middle aged blokes got into football and we make up the majority of football journalists.
Why oh why oh why must people keep calling us a yo-yo team? Going back to chairmen, does our vice chairman/CEO/Chairman's son (delete where applicable) ever reflect that one of the many measures of a good chairman is how many people come to watch his team each home game? In the season that has just concluded, we have had the best product available in the Broad Acres, yet despite our PL status the vermin and the pigs in the Championship, and the blunts in Lg 1 all had bigger average attendances than ours. We pipped Hudders by a few hundred per game and Lg 1 Bradford by about 2,500 per game. It should be noted that all the above had good seasons where they were in the running for promotion, but any impartial observer would be struck at how low our gates are, given our success in recent years and the 'quality of the product'. Not going into any debates about name changes, concessions etc again, just pointing out that any chairman worth his salt would find a way to enthuse and engage with supporters (past, present and future.) This is what saddens a lot of us older ****s, we have had 3 PL spells now and we seem to have fewer fans then before the first one, and the owners seem incapable of finding any common ground with so many sections of our support. They truly do not get football, or why people choose to support a team through thick and thin. It seems they are happy to admit this, but consider it unimportant to reach out to waverers, the disillusioned or the sceptical. The impression they give is 'we couldn't care less about what you want or how things were done in the past'. Why would anyone in business adopt such a cavalier and reckless attitude when gates are declining? We had the this city in our hand in 2008 and the Allams did until they started all this name change bollocks, and revealed a confrontational and dismissive approach to their 'customers'. We are now in a downward spiral where supporters might have been able to help arrest the decline. But like Steve Bruce, Marco Silva and our better players, they won't be around to lend a hand to paddle the water out of the sinking ship and buy season passes. Be careful how you treat people on your way up, they won't be there for you on your way down.
And yet I guarantee if there was a waiting list for season tickets, and if we sold out every week to the state there was a lottery for a handful of extra tickets, you would be first to whine about all the new fans, the plastics, the glory seekers etc etc. It's almost like you're just a sad troll.
Know your place. Agro is the top boy, the numero uno. We are not worthy of his presence. Have some respect, plastic PL whore bag.
I like this Chairman (well CEO) More than double the terraced area for noisy fans?...why not...in fact **** it, we'll take out a load of corporate seats to make even more space for the noisy ****ers. Charge them more?! **** off. I've agreed not to put up the cheap prices because "Young or socially vulnerable people should also have access to the Eintracht experience", said club CEO Axel Hellmann. http://stadiumdb.com/news/2017/05/frankfurt_eintracht_to_boost_atmosphere_and_capacity
Huddersfield Town. Dick Krzywicki. Sideburns befitting any of the members of ELO. 1970's. Play Off Winners in each of the divisions. Won the Championship 3 years on the trot. Got relegated from the old Dvision 1 to Division 4 in almost successive seasons. Fair play to them.
I remember them having a ginger twat at left back, Geoff Hutt. A real dirty bastard - everybody had one (or two) back then though.
Was coming in to say just that. The kids of the 70s-90s now make up the largest percentage of football journalists/presenters/etc. so the perceptions of that generation hold sway. Give it another generation and Forest/Sheff Weds/Leeds (if they can't get it together) and a few others will be lost to obscurity as well. If we can get our **** together and spend a couple of years in the PL who knows, the next generation might see us as a big club.
My grandad used to talk about our near miss in Season 1909/10 when in the closest ever race for promotion to Div 1 we were one of 3 teams fighting for the second promotion place, being one point behind the champions Man City. All finished with the same number of points and we lost out on goal average to Oldham who had an identical W. D. L. record. Derby were the other team. Manager was a guy called Ambrose Langley who my grandad knew.
