Notts County's plight is well documented and yet still baffling. Why are we perennially, well, cr@p and underachieving? We've had good managers, players, budgets, owners and facilities yet somehow we have found ourselves in the basement of the football pyramid. Well, not quite, but you catch the drift. The single factor in all of the this that hasn't changed is us, the fans.

Through no fault of our own really we are second best to Forest in this city and have been for some time now, it's sad to say but it's pointless denying it. Barring some biblical sequence of events that status quo isn't going to change anytime soon, an this in itself is a big mental hurdle that we have to leap in order to bring sustained success to Meadow Lane. We have been in Forests shadow now for so long in fact that it has now sunk into our subconscious that we are a second rate club, which has created an inferiorty complex amongst the club.

When a 'big' club, or well supported club play Notts it's almost like we automatically accept we are not as good as them, or "we'll struggle to beat them, or not worthy of the win....the same goes for when we play on the television, we just expect to be rubbish now. We have a collective low self esteem so to speak, directly from being second best (and reminded of it so often) to the lot over the river. Look at other teams who have 'big brothers' in the same city. Everton, Birmingham, Portsmouth, Luton, Bristol Rovers etc etc....they struggle the same as us I believe.

This is my point regarding the Microcosm and Macrocosm. Consider us, the fans, as the Microcosm and the club as a whole as the Macrocosm. In theory, the Microcosm and everything part of it directly influences the Macrocosm. Although some of us may well be positive, optimistic people individually, as a whole fan base in general (or Microcosm in this instance) we are largely subdued, and pessimistic...we have an inferiorty complex to perceived bigger clubs.

It is akin to the theory that 'like attracts like'. A club with an inferiorty complex, like ours, subconsciously attracts constant failure, drama and upheavel because that's what we've come to accept and believe what deserves to happen to us. It is a vicious circle really and one that can only be rectified (if true of course) through conscious individual effort to be more positive in ourselves and start to recognise that Notts do deserve success....and when enough of us can do this we will reach a critical mass....and the status quo can then be challenged!

Maybe we all just need to be a bit more like soccerman 😮😬