The day I knew this club had ceased to be the club I grew up with was the day we appointed Sam Allardyce, presumably by handing him his preferred brown envelope.
He did, but it was Flo who was stalling on the deal too and the fee would be increased- he was due on a 'free' a few months later, so not great foresight there. Good player Flo, but what was the plan? Him and Ferguson up front? Urgh, no thanks.
Agree. I barely celebrated because i feared what was coming. The key to their success was how they (Cole and Malouda) exploited Hibbert and Osman down that side.
Yeah think we got that feeling that we scored to early.
I'd like to believe this and think there's some general truth in what your saying, but we don't really know that do we, lots of other teams don't have the history and expectations that we as a fan base have, in any case the end of last year was a more critical and stressful time than now and we pulled together brilliantly, the speed of the deterioration from how special that was - only really a few months ago, is alarming, right now the most innocuous of comments on social media will 110% upset someone
Well I'm on about 50 other team sites as I co run Premier and Championship groups, I'm a silent member though, I just read and get news on transfers, gossip etc,, the history of their teams just as significant to them. We couldn't really be expected to carry on the level of that support we had those last few weeks, it would completely change the outlook of football.
