Haw Frank ...

[cocopops61]

Good news on the ground ownership front,I'm presuming that if it's good for CUFC and their supporters then you are against it?

[Psaw]

It makes no difference to me. The local paper says Cambridge United will buy the freehold, thats Paul Barry buying the freehold. He was one of the players when the ground was sold before.

He is buying prime real estate a mile and a half from the city centre. Barry is, not Cambridge United.

Its all about words, fine print. If the club thrives he will sell at enormous profit. There is also something about a golden share, if you buy one you can veto a new buyer. Really.

I lost interest in the club when they dropped into non league in 2007 or whenever. When they scored, if they did, i felt nothing. The minute i stopped going they started to win, im trying not to take that personally.

It doesnt matter what league they are in, its all the same thing over and over, thats what happens when you get older. He can shove his politics, and United will always be a small club. Always. There is no pathway to higher leagues even if United get a seriously rich buyer. In the football world Barry has got tuppence.

He is buying the ground as an investment.

You dont go to county anymore, can you relate to any of this? Are you as bored with football as i am? Watch any game, and its the same game you see at Port Vale or Morecambe. There is only one style now. I watch the EFL programme for two minutes then do something else, ive quit sky sports, and i dont miss it at all.

Ill always be grateful for the good times, but ive moved on. Why football fans care i dont know, its all about those involved, standing on the terraces is not being involved.

Its all pap. Children are dying in a war. Forza Wisbech. Till they go down, then its.....

[cocopops61]

Aye I knew that you would see the negatives in it Frank,I thought that it was positive thinking for the future but obviously I'm not a U's fan and didn't see the bigger picture so thanks for that 😎

Yes I've stopped following Notts now but I've always said that I would when I reached 60 and hi and watch some non league football and yes I see the irony of not watching Notts to watching another non league side but you know what I mean,42 years is a long time following the same club and witnessed some amazing up and downs,from division four up to the league one and then out of the league completely it's been a mad ride,taken over by fake billionaires and watching Forest get two European Cups are just two things that spring to mind but I wouldn't change a thing,40 clubs visited following Notts and if I was to do it all over I would do the 92 whilst Notts was in the top flight so I could finish off with some achievement,I would go to the new Wembley if they got there as I haven't been yet,I've been to the old Wembley several times but not the new one,what about you Frank,what would you do in your footballing life if you had the chance to relive it over again?

[Psaw]

You sound like you should still be going, why not? Im sure there are timelines, my 1957 till 2022 and beyond cannot be lived again. Being born with a 64 year old mind in a new life is interesting.
I would know whats important and what isnt. Politics would be interesting, i would certainly make as much money as i could when young, its important, who wants to be poor, or not have it? Only socialists hate it, because they have envy, and like to spend other peoples.

As for football, i used to think of football as a form of art, the perfect pass, along the ground with top spin, the juggle before a volley into the roof of the net, a dribble, the perfect tackle. Most of that has gone now, its a computerised, regimented, read out on a bit of paper.
Its a of war of attrition, effort, and strength. For 80 minutes nothing of note happens. The strength of english football was its dynamism, not now.

Theres the cheating, the time wasting, all now legit, why wouldnt you, as Mark Johnson says on radio cambs. Its not english, thats why, its cheating.
Win at all costs, even if the way of doing it is dishonorable. If you resort to cheating.....

Its not worth it. With this sort of thinking, why not pour chemical weapons on the Ukrainians? After all, it means a win. The principle is the same.

The big question is if was 20, had money and an education, would i try and improve the world, and at lest change some of it?. I dont know. I suspect its a trap, a pointless task, like filling in a hole with no bottom to it. Its a scientific fact that you change the balance then the othor side gets a boost, i forget what its called.
If the world becomes to good, a beast emerges, and vice versa. It exists this law.

At this moment in time, i would spend a new life making love to as many young ladies as i can, hoping to find my soul mate, eating good food, and soaking up the sun on the Amalfi coast.
I would travel to India or some god forsaken hell hole and hand out money. Organised charity is a scam.
I would recruit half a dozen Ukrainian army vets, arm them, and let them loose on the African savanna hunting elephant poachers. I would give a warning first, though, one must be fair.

Then Vlad the impaler style, hoist them up, for all to see. Problem solved. Maybe. A cat and mouse game would be entertaining.

Sounds good for a start, who knows where it goes from there. Life is a mystery. Football?, no.

[cocopops61]

I wouldn't bother with love or finding the perfect soulmate because they don't exist,well not for me anyhow,I could live without s.ex knowing what I know now because it's just not worth the pain or stress,I would keep an eye on past loves though and see how their lives panned out without me in them,is that normal?
I would make sure that I became rich by investing in fledgling companies like Apple,Amazon,Google and eBay starting by befriending Richard Branson and then use the money for good things,I wouldn't bother with football as I had seen and done all that,invest in the internet from its birth,I read somewhere that the creator of the www didn't patent it because he wanted the world to share it,he would have been the richest man in the world of he had done so that's something else that I would rush down to the patent office,I wouldn't be denying him any royalties after all would I as he's not bothered, the trouble is that as I write this it's accured to me that I would end up a recluse like Getty or Hughes and that can't be good can it?