Tolerant Tom

I wonder what you would have said if Worthwhile said "The fans have been b****y awful", no I don''t wonder, I know...you''d give him stick. I''m afraid you''re stuck with the manager and board trying to talk upbeat even when things are going thru a (temporary) downturn. I''m old enough to remember some cigar smoking guy (no, not Malcolm Allison), come up with the incomparable "darkest hour.... we shall fight them on the beaches......", hey, just as well the ''fans'' didn''t call for his resignation. 

Yep - I''m happy with the direction the club are going in - UP, after the last 3 games. Who to replace Worthwhile, easy - McCarthy, Redknapp, Robson, Souness, Wise... the list is endless. More pressing than that though, who do we replace the miserable fans with, if only they really would NOT renew their season tickets, HA! some hope. Even the band played when the Titanic went down, were just leaking at the moment and the band''s stopped playing. 

What a load of c**p, I suppose you are going to tell me that Chelsea, Man Utd, Wigan, etc are great teams because they spent wisely with their Premiership money. The truth is, like so many City fans, you let youself believe that we have a right to the Premiership. As with so many city fans, you talk double dutch, a lot of the criticism lately is about not bringing players through the Academy, and when we do, you say they are rubbish if they don''t score 20+ goals in their first season. I''m afraid it''s all too predictable, when City are on song, the management team are great and what''s more, they are doing all the right things, when things go pear shaped, the character assassination starts, and woe betide anybody who criticises the fantastic fans.

I love the WO fans, I had some behind me at tonights Brighton Game shouting WO. Only the brain dead can think that shouting that chorus during the (undoubtedly grim) match, is going to lift the players on the pitch. For the Fulham debacle at the end of last season, and last weeks local derby, the City shouldn''t need a manager, it''s about putting on the shirt and playing with pride and passion. The Captain can''t steer the ship if the engine room isn''t working. In football, some things are certain, one of them is that, at some time, (even great) managers will go through a period of failure, just ask George Burley. I believe our great fans are largely responsible, through their unprecedented vitriol, of NCFC failing to sign the divisions leading striker when we had the chance, I personally never had anything against Adi, he was just new to the job but boy, didn''t we show him our displeasure, I wouldn''t have come back for £50,000 a week after that treatment.  

I think I''ve found the problem at NCFC. It''s simple, when things go well it''s the supporters, who, to quote The Man in the Stands "are the fundamental building blocks of this club''s recent success". I''m not quite sure what we did to have this honour bestowed upon us, but by inference, we have stopped doing whatever it was that led to this honour. This is an intolerable situation and I demand that those supporters who were the "fundamental building blocks of this club''s recent success" dig deep in their conscience,  to ensure that those glory days are resurrected. If they can''t, then the Board should demand their resignation. You see, football is really very easy, we read in the pink''un exactly how easy it is every week. The recent dead cert of Spurs beating Leicester in the Cup, in Place Your Bets is just one example of how predictable football is. Middlesborough thrashing Chelsea 3-0 is another. What makes me want to throw up, is the creeping character assassination of Worthwhile. From being a shrewd manager who has given the club relative succes in his tenure, he is now generally regarded as "lucky", in other words, he had nothing to do with it. I''ve suddenly had a revolutionary thought, I believe he was largely responsible for the clubs recent success and is NOW unlucky. Of course, the buck stops at Worthwhile, but if a football team consisted of 1 player and 11 managers, then the 1 player would carry the can, after all, somebody has to, it''s a damn sight easier to blame 1 person than 11. THE MAN can now honestly say that he does know a City supporter who wants Worthwhile to stay. (Helveg GREAT at right back, come on Adam at Capital Canaries, he was a b****y disaster). Incidentally, I''m setting up an ''Independent Board Association'', I only need to get a couple more people to join me and I can then claim to represent the Board at it''s meetings with the Independent Supporters Association!