Its about time. The most irrelevant season of football ever. At least that other fat Kopite will go as well then.
I do find this quite interesting from perennially safe, mid to upper-midtable Premiership teams; that long sigh about a disappointing season not achieving what you ought to whether it's not winning the title or missing out on the CL or EL places. Especially nowadays with the bloating of the top six and Arsenal and United fans having felt the pinch in recent years.
It
could always be worse. Being in the top flight with its inflated TV money is pretty sweet no matter how you look at it. I'm sure
@Famine could back me up or share similar sentiments; in his lifetime he has watched his team be an upper-midtable top flight team and reach three domestic cup finals before seeing a decline to a perennial relegation fighter, relegation to the second tier, relegation to the
third tier before climbing back to the second tier where they've been stuck for near as makes no difference most of the past 20 years.
In my lifetime, my team Wrexham has never been higher than the third tier. I've seen us promoted once and relegated
three times. We're currently anticipating in our eleventh consecutive season in the fifth tier, the 🤬 non-league. And yet if you ask anyone, they'll all say we ought to be in League One still. We 'feel' that way. I still feel that way, based on that ever reliable quality of how "big" your club is perceived. Seeing your team being relegated is an awful feeling, never mind seeing it happen three times, one of which is being relegated out of the Football League in rock bottom, 92nd/92nd last place.
Everton haven't been in the second tier since what, the 1950s? Even Manchester United have been in the second tier more recently than that, and it came just 5 years after winning the European Cup. The oil money clouds people's judgement but Manchester City were a club with
some history and even I, a 26 year old, can recall watching Manchester City play Wrexham in the third tier.
You're in the world's most financially lucrative football division next year
again. Get the right manager in and it won't feel so bad.
By the way, this post was nothing against you personally it's just that the "it could always be worse" opinion from fans of clubs further down the pyramid is rather interesting and I don't think we've discussed it on the board. Not in a long while anyway.
