…..one thing I noticed in the recent Derby was how quiet it was. They are a club that have lost their local identity, large numbers of season tickets owned by people who sell them on weekly basis to tourist groups. Fans with half/half scarfs, taking videos on their phones, foreign accents, they play in the city but don’t belong in the city.
That model is fine when doing well as the media darlings but it only takes a dip and it could fall apart. I remember the Hodgson days when they couldn’t give tickets away in the pub, locals get used to not going and watching on telly.