Re: Baggies

GBBlue

I know I sound petty but I really hope the Baggies get a few uncomfortable seasons struggling at the wrong end of the Championship. It would gall me if they somehow ride through this financially difficult period with good results and a play-off place and then find a new owner in situ next season.

I don't particularly hate WBA and it isn't good to see our other West Midlands clubs struggling in League 1 or 2 (well except Villa who I would be euphoric should they ever drop to that position) but I do think they deserve a few years of purgatory like us.

I've personally nothing against Baggies, but we've already seen vile sail through it and apart from a couple of weeks in that summer where it was panic stations, they really got off light and came out the other side the club that we see now. Galling in the extreme.
Even the Dingles eventually came up smelling of roses.

I really hope this is our turn, but by feck we've had to pay for it if it is.;

I don’t wish any suffering on Albion or Wolves fans tbh and I’d like to see both doing well in the Premier League. I’ve lived amongst them most of my life and never had any bother with either, even in a packed Gifford Arms on a matchday evening (we weren’t playing them btw, I was on a freebie, I’m not mad). On both sides, when they find out I’m Blues they invariably say “we hate villa too”. I care less about villa’s success now than ever before because if Knighthead pull off what they’re hoping to achieve we’ll be bigger and better than all three, carrying the name of the city as we do it and we’ll have done it the hard way which will make it so much sweeter.

One day, in my lifetime, the lyrics of our club anthem will come true and we’ll be there (where?) at the end of the road. Some believe that that dream is now in sight, others, due to being tired and weary, believe it’s another mirage or another castle built on sand. Some are choosing to be miserable on the journey and act like spoilt kids demanding to get there sooner or back seat drivers, criticising the driver and knowing more than the sat nav, despite never driving or knowing the actual way to the destination.

Others are determined to enjoy the ride, acting like excited kids wondering what it’ll be like when they’re finally there, or singing and clapping along to the driver’s playlist. There’s a some being car sick, a few licking windows and a couple of rogues on the back seat causing trouble for their own amusement but the only question is do you stay on the bus?