little Perspective!
I recall the excitement of going down with Schoolmates to begin with, seeing Stans under floodlights for the first time WOW!
Then my first away game, getting caught up in all that raucousness, seeing us score goals for fun with Bridges, Pickering et al.
Then finding my own Youth Culture, being a boyo on the Kop with fellow skins, so many of them now sadly passed away!
The Penguin years! OMG how brilliant at the time and better now looking back, Francis, Big Bob Latchford, & Bob Hatton a front three to play for us
in my dreams!
Then Fulham 75, then the up and down years under smith & Saunders (OOOPS I've forgotten battering the Villa five on the trot!!) till
then the real decline down to Div 3, at least we had our BIG day at Wembley Leyland Daf! Kumars bought us off the scrap king (can I say well done Ken Wheldon, taking those light bulbs out kept us in Business! Kumars went bust and enter stage left Proper owners!
United in Porn and loaded down with cash and desperate for respectability, they appointed a 21 yr old Girl and the next 16 yrs gave us a media profile we had never envisaged and halting baby steps upwards till that Glorious day in Cardiff when Darren Carter did what majority of us would have loved (but probably blown the opportunity) and blasted us to the promised land.
I loved the Prem! Every victory was a cause for major celebration and yes two separate Relegations, but then our highest placing in 50 yrs, followed By CY`s crowning moment LEAGUE CUP WINNERS!
The heartbreak of WHL, but a European Odyssey! and but for Colin Doyle another playoff final!
Since then yes, it has been shit!
But surely, (I know dont call me Shirley) Good times must be ready to reappear?
I've written this mainly to cheer myself up, any positive memories, you guys & Gals have to share might lift the mood in the camp.
KEEP THE FAITH & KEEP RIGHT ON!