Kane57 wrote:You two are the only ones who care. Rest of us are just here for the football.
A question mate - not just for you but for everyone.
If it's just about the football would you watch Bolton no matter what, or when would you say enough is enough?
Would you watch Parkinson and Megson type football week in week out if that simply kept us up every season?
If we went bust and had to start again in the non league with players considerably less skilful than the ones we had now, would you go and follow us - even after a season or two when the novelty had worn off?
If we played like Barcelona (but say still in the Championship) would you be happy to pay stupid money - say £60 per game to see it?
If you could see every game for free on a stream rather than go to the ground - would you still pay to watch them?
For me you see it was never about the football - ever. My enjoyment was going with my mates and having a laugh together both before during and after the match - and I mean days before (planning the route, arranging the travel, people letting you down at the last minute and so on) at the game - laughing that we were such a bad team and what donkeys we had, or shouting from the roof tops after another glorious win - to days after analysing where we went wrong both on the pitch and our feeble attempts at getting to the ground and back home again!
Talking about Anderson, Holdsworth, the ST, Iles, the anti-Anderson's, nutjobs like Wanderlust etc, simply amuses me - just like everything that happened outside watching the actual game, amused me back then.
It's all pointless really, nothing I say or do is going to change anything. I don't fret or stress or get worked up about things. I laugh at those who take things that seriously that they live to tweet their anger about somebody they've never met - or ever will - simply because they own the club and don't run it the way they should do in their small minded and often clearly ill informed opinion.
I laugh at a reporter clearly likeable but totally out of his depth on financial matters and obviously keeping the wrong company for his bestest mates - he's being played and he simply doesn't see it.
The football is probably the last thing on my mind these days. Oh I want us to win and the kick in the guts is still there when that last minute goal went in - even at my age and after all those years - but it's still just a game.
I've been watching Ambulance on catch up on BBC iplayer (link below if anyone is interested) and it's about a young woman 24 years old, killed by a hit and run in Manchester, and how a bloke from the ambulance crew rationalises how he feels about things after seeing her die.
That's real life, that's what real pain and tragedy is about for the young woman's family.
Footballs nothing compared to that, it's just a distraction, nothing to get worked up about or go mental over.
The players are lucky they get paid so much for kicking a ball about, Iles is lucky he gets paid to watch and write about it. Anderson is lucky (good or bad luck depending on if he makes a killing or not) by owning the club. Holdsworth seems to be lucky that he appears to be quid's in for simply signing the club up to a bad deal. I'm lucky I've got nutjobs like Wanderlust to laugh at - and finally I guess everyone else is lucky that they can laugh at me.
Anyway, that link -
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]EDIT - Scum driver gets just 7 years for killing woman crossing the road at the lights, driving off without stopping, going through further red lights, going on the run for three days then saying nothing to the police.
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