And therein lies the problems with some folks perception. The days of regularly visiting Old Trafford (did we ever?? Does 3 years in a row count) are decades, a generation ago, it's just not comparable IMO.

If you compare everything back to the golden era of late 70s early 80s then the past 40 years must be absolutely miserable , long before we dropped out the football league.

If on the other hand it had been said that how far we have fallen because it wasn't too long ago that a trip to Swindon, Bradford or Stoke was viewed as a tough place to go, I fully get it.

Different eras, different animals.