.................you really don't give a s**t anymore. When the players and the owners of a club I have supported for over forty years don't give a s**t why should I care. You might say that I should blindly and loyally follow the club but I am afraid that is the route for gullible fools who don't care if they are exploited and abused. My support is conditional on the simple facts that I don't wish to be taken granted or to be made to look like an idiot. The club has failed on both of these scores. Only an absolutely gullible fool would allow themselves to continue to be ripped of by football given what has happened to Saints. To all those that criticise my view I would ask what the f** is it that you think you support? A club over which you have no influence? The adulation of individual players whose loyalty is as shallow as a puddle in the rain? Football fans are gullible fools and it has taken me over forty years to reach that conclusion. I hope all you young lads cotton on a lot quicker than me. A curse on all their houses. Next year £1500 will buy the lovely Mrs Godders and me a superb holiday.
You do as somebody has to protect the gullible, the foolish, the innocent and the down right stupid. You decide which one or more of those four categories you fall into.
Godders. First dibs on borrowing your season tickets for the WBA game please? My dad wants to take his new lady, so your tickets would be perfect. #sorted
Do you mean, "I wish I was able to not give a **** any more; life would be so much easier!"? You'll be biting your nails along with the rest of us on the first day of the season and you know it.
Find a cause that you believe in and that will benefit mankind in some small way, and devote the same energy & passion (and £1500...) to that instead.
I wouldn't blame you Godders. I don't believe you for a second but if it WAS true I wouldn't blame you.
Godders, your support will always be your choice, and not based on the behaviour of others. To me your passion has always shone through, so to read of your hurt is hard to take. I'm sure that Frau Godders is pretty miffed with the situation as well (bless her!), however remember that its always darkest before the dawn and the one thing we can influence is our own personal concern for the club we love. Take a holiday, take a break, but where ever you are your heart will always be with the Saints.
I've spoken to the Board and we believe the value (for that game only) to be nearer to £25 each. Apparently we buy new things at a lesser value. Chin up mate. COYR
Ever thought of the stage, Godders? Of course the owners and board care about the club, as do most of the players. Just don't go...I'm sure people will use your tickets on an ad hoc basis...then you can have a nice holiday this season instead.
I'm just reliving 2009, its getting me through this just fine*. But we are pretty fuct barring some miracle, so what's the worst, we go down to the Champ, home of real football, & from that place of safety we shall see the players we once loved turn into even bigger pricks, but not while wearing the special stripes of Southampton. I'm tired of feeling hurt by all this, I don't know what the future holds, but I'm not going to let football make my kids look at me in the morning & think; "What's up with that grumpy git today?" Screw that, life is too short. UTS
Same thing we've always supported? In my time as a supporter we've suffered B***foot, Speedie, Lowe, Woodward, Twitcher, Thomas to name a few. Rosenthal and Tranmere in the FA cup, those Manure ****ers when we got relegated, Wotte, Skates in the cup and their WBA 'game', selling any number of good players we couldn't keep. Not difficult to add more to that list. NONE OF WHICH I had any control over. Didn't have any control over the good bits either. I'm still here, and I'm not going anywhere.
Sadly, you could apply this to everything in life - what is the point in football, working, looking after the environment, loving etc. If you boil it down a lot of our emotions are irrational: there is no reason why so many of us should get passionate about 11 people hitting a spherical object to one another but we do. Your passion may ebb and flow and sometimes it is sensible to take a step back to get a perspective, there is no justification to unite under one particular side, however hopefully we will have something positive to look forward to soon and if not, it is only a game .
It's all going to be fine: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/11-reasons-southampton-going-absolutely-3935491 Sorry if already posted.
