[spireitematt]

Sorry Matt and everybody but I'm retiring hurt on 98. My words from another thread explain I hope:-

"I'm sorry, but after all these years I have to stop taking an interest in a team which no longer wants to win. Our owner doesn't care about us and I just can't fathom our manager's attitude. He spent the summer doing nothing whilst teams with no money were able to recruit decent players and now he seems accidentally or deliberately to be experimenting with bizarre decision-making processes and X-File team sheets and substitutions.

Our young players are marooned behind closed doors and destined to progression ever backwards. We have a lard-ass proto-thug as captain with the turning circle of a super-tanker and the pace of a coral polyp who, despite his age, has never been much of a player, and when we are goal down we take off our most likely late goalscorer and replace him with a player who at his best never averaged more than two goals a season ....... We clearly want to go down.

I need to spend my time on more fruitful pursuits. I've cancelled my weekly Non-League Paper. I have to forget about predicting scores and looking how the National League fares. Chesterfield has to be dead to me. We are anyway; it's only the fans who won't lie down. I've considered writing to the club, but am wondering if it's worth the ink just to make me feel marginally better."

Like Popeye I just can't stands no more.

Yeah I saw that on the thread Dev.

A guy yesterday left not long after Stockport scored their 2nd goal and he said. 'Why should we care as they don't.' It is frustrating and annoying what is happening at the moment but like Jock Stein said. 'Football without fans is nothing'. Managers, players, owners, chairmen come and go but we remain. We remain because we live in hope that something will change and that one year we will end up getting promotion or knocking out Manchester United or Chelsea in the FA Cup and when those things happen it makes it all worth while.