- Jun 5, 2004
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You know the bloke; you know him well.
He'll sit a couple of rows in front of you or behind you and he'll moan. But he won't just moan, he'll refuse to acknowledge any positive passage of play - and instead try and find the negative in it.
So it had got to 70 mins on Saturday and he literally hadn't shut-up, so I piped up with:
"How about you fucking support them?"
A few people turned around with slight nodding approval, but he turned to me (he was 3 seats away from me on the same row) in slight disbelief and said:
"How can you support that?" referring to our current no-score-drawing side.
And I replied, with full patronising tone:
"Because that's your fucking job, mate". And he sort of muttered something.
The seats to my right are full of members (in more than one sense of the word) - they change every week, they're not season ticket holders so I see some interesting folk. But I would have thought if you get a ticket and you don't go that often, surely you'd sing up more? (He didn't sing ONCE). And surely he was old enough to know better? (He looked late 30s [generous] - early 40s).
I'm really getting disillusioned at the level of support. I sit in Block 28 (row 2) and there are really only a few of us around that sing. And if it was you (dear reader) who I told to support our team, then I'm not particularly sorry for having a go, I'm just sad that you choose to support in such a negative way. Well "support": "criticise" would be more apt.
Have you any similar tales? What are your views on our support since the Jol years that has seen us propelled to where we are now?
He'll sit a couple of rows in front of you or behind you and he'll moan. But he won't just moan, he'll refuse to acknowledge any positive passage of play - and instead try and find the negative in it.
So it had got to 70 mins on Saturday and he literally hadn't shut-up, so I piped up with:
"How about you fucking support them?"
A few people turned around with slight nodding approval, but he turned to me (he was 3 seats away from me on the same row) in slight disbelief and said:
"How can you support that?" referring to our current no-score-drawing side.
And I replied, with full patronising tone:
"Because that's your fucking job, mate". And he sort of muttered something.
The seats to my right are full of members (in more than one sense of the word) - they change every week, they're not season ticket holders so I see some interesting folk. But I would have thought if you get a ticket and you don't go that often, surely you'd sing up more? (He didn't sing ONCE). And surely he was old enough to know better? (He looked late 30s [generous] - early 40s).
I'm really getting disillusioned at the level of support. I sit in Block 28 (row 2) and there are really only a few of us around that sing. And if it was you (dear reader) who I told to support our team, then I'm not particularly sorry for having a go, I'm just sad that you choose to support in such a negative way. Well "support": "criticise" would be more apt.
Have you any similar tales? What are your views on our support since the Jol years that has seen us propelled to where we are now?