All Covid has shown me is football is a pretty boring sport. I thought I loved it. What I love, is the going to a game. The chat beforehand. Meeting with a friend, being social. The few beers before the match. Then afterwards, no matter if we lose, or win, you chat about it. You thrash over whats just happened. if you win, you a little spring in your step. If you lose then you have even more to discuss. Its getting out of the house. Its blowing off some steam. Its the social activity.
the actual 90 mins of football is normally the slight let down. Most games in the modern era are basically 3 or 4 players knocking the ball around the back. Or sideways. Very little action is in either box.
All this has doine is highlight to me none of this is important. I am just taking another view. Sky, radio, silly football fan forums talk about this golden promotion like its the be all and end all.
We do NOT want to go up. It would be embarrasing. We are nowhere near good enough.
But then ....98% clubs every single season 'fail'. Most clubs are just midtable clubs going absolutely nowhere.
The whole of the Champ from top to bottom are all going nowhere. If 3 go up, 2 come straight back down. The other one rattles about for a few years, then they drop too.
We aren't failing. We are who we are. Like the vast majority of other clubs.
We have a small fan base, a pretty average team, and are midtable. Like we have been almost our entire history.
Its crap most weeks, we look ok sometimes, and awful others. That's the whole division, not just us.
I've seen the Prem. Been there and done that. Its boring. We would lose 9/10 nil to clubs like Man City or Liverpool.
So I just feel we are where we are. No point expecting something that will not happen.
If we got a new manager, it would go one of a few ways. The likeliest is we stay midtable. As that's what we are. A midtable Champ club. What then? Do we then sack the next manager?
If we get it wrong, (which I'm 50/50 on) then we could easily end up back in Div1. Only this time, for a decade.
Or we get lucky, and become one of only 2% of football clubs that actually achieve something in a league campaign.
For me, I am just not bothered. Sky and other football forums tell me that this is what we need to aspire to? I am unsure. I just think the game itself has been highlighted and its all over hyped, too much exposure, too many games and its all a bit boring.
If we lose another few games, he will probably go.