13-11-2014, 10:57
Looking at it coldly, we ARE a mid-Championship Club:-
We've got a relatively small catchment area in terms of indigenous population. (The future will be when local-born Afro/Asian people who have now "found" football, attach to us, rather than ManU etc.)
We're not "blessed" with a rich Owner, (thank goodness - it will only eventually lead to possible ruin.)
Our expectations ARE high, simply because we have been so successful in the past. Don't forget that the Area was the Cradle of the Industrial Revolution, and prosperous for the 1st 100 years of the Club's existence. Today ticket prices are so high as to deter the next generation from ever going regularly - instead they latch onto the Chelseas and "support" them in the Pubs showing their Sky matches.
Things won't change in my lifetime, so I'll continue to doff my cap to a good Leader.
We've got a relatively small catchment area in terms of indigenous population. (The future will be when local-born Afro/Asian people who have now "found" football, attach to us, rather than ManU etc.)
We're not "blessed" with a rich Owner, (thank goodness - it will only eventually lead to possible ruin.)
Our expectations ARE high, simply because we have been so successful in the past. Don't forget that the Area was the Cradle of the Industrial Revolution, and prosperous for the 1st 100 years of the Club's existence. Today ticket prices are so high as to deter the next generation from ever going regularly - instead they latch onto the Chelseas and "support" them in the Pubs showing their Sky matches.
Things won't change in my lifetime, so I'll continue to doff my cap to a good Leader.