I had an interesting chat with a NUFC pal about the relegation thing. Before they became big oil, they flirted with the drop. Repeatedly, and then dropped.
No fan bases are the same, but you’d have to stretch it to say that the NUFC fans aren’t passionate about the whole shebang.
But.
The pal and his mates were awaiting the drop that time and he said one of thems view was: “look, we’ll go down. We’ll travel everywhere different, and will win a lot. When the anger subsides, IT WILL BE MINT”
And he said, as it turned out, it was mint. There is a feel when you’re winning games, and expecting to win games. It is ******* awesome, and when it’s set against a decade of not, all the better. Citeh and rs fans and all them do not get this feeling, as it is pure entitlement ingrained. But I have no doubt that we are getting a dose of that feeling now. Ok whatever. I am getting it, and it is mint. On three effing games.
And eventually NUFC returned and got the big oil and now he is circumspect about all that.
Which all got me thinking: was there any path that despite the blue smoke, opposition choking, EFC fan support which did its best work in the desperate times, where we could have concluded that there was a good time to be had if the worst had come to pass.
No. No f***ing way.
It better be behind us though.
shoutout).
