[meandbrenarebaggies]

Looking at that picture of Law just gets me thinking of what teams were like in those days.
We would all know the basic week-on-week players, both of Man Utd and of The Albion by
this time in the season. Some would be having exceptional seasons; some mediocre and
sadly some poor but the team itself was an identifiable entity. Contrast that with the game
on Sunday. Who knows who will trot out to play? The certainty; the identification between
fans and players, has been eroded by the squad system and endless recruitment through
the year of more and more miraculous players who inevitably turn out to be anything but.
I admire teams that stick with a small group of players; give them a decent run and only
reluctantly drop them for genuine reasons not at the whim of owners/managers. The distance between fans and their teams is a real problem, aggravated by things like the
abandonment of 3pm kick offs. I don’t care who plays for The Albion on Sunday as long
as they all play to win; that was the essence of the Albion teams that took on the likes of Law.