And so the defeats just keep on coming.
Grim isn’t it.
If we didn’t realise it before now, yesterday’s defeat confirmed that we are indeed in the midst of Project Restart Mark II. The target now – and forget any daft notions of survival – must be to break the 21-point barrier, and make this only our second-worst ever Premier League campaign.
That’s six defeats on the spin at a time when other teams at the bottom are fighting for PL lives. Six consecutive capitulations. Six games in which we have been comprehensively outplayed. Six games in which the best we have been able to muster is the odd decent 20-minute spell here and there.
We had one yesterday, triggered by the introduction of the excellent Jon Rowe.
But it shouldn’t need the introduction of a fearless 18-year-old to spring this group into some belated life. There should be enough in this squad, however low on quality it may be, to play with fight, passion and energy, especially against opponents who themselves are short of confidence and belief.
Instead, we have found ourselves outplayed over consecutive weekends by teams identified as being potential targets who could yet be dragged into the relegation scrap.
Sports broadcaster, City fan and friend of MFW, Simon Thomas summed it up perfectly…
As Simon put it, this really is peak Norwich City. As some really quite poor teams around us flounder, we still manage to be the worst of the bunch.
Yesterday, despite being thoroughly outplayed for at least 70 of the 90 minutes we somehow, from somewhere, gave ourselves a chance of earning a point. Hell, such was the swing in momentum when Kenny McLean swept in Teemu Pukki’s fine low cross, we even convinced ourselves that there was a chance of an unlikely win.
But even afforded a chance to stage the ultimate smash and grab, this group didn’t have it in them to see the job through. They didn’t even have it in them to at least secure a hard-earned point.
And the goal that won it…
How the hell does Ben Gibson – all 6ft of him – lose out in an absolutely critical aerial challenge to all 5 feet 7 inches of Joe Gelhardt?
And then how the hell does Brandon Williams get so easily brushed aside by Raphinha in what was a must-win challenge?
Yet there was something so Norwich City about giving away that soft goal and the way we snatched defeat from the jaws of a potential victory, or at least a point.
We may have a trio of Scotsmen in our ranks – albeit one was absent yesterday – but the Bravehearts are very few and far between. In this squad, the lily-livered outnumber the heroes.
We, of course, came out of the wrong end of some 50/50 officialdom both on the pitch and in Stockley Park yesterday, and it is indeed tiring, but that’s not why we’re bottom of the table and heading at breakneck speed back to the Championship.
Neither are we welcome in the Premier League, but that in itself is not why we capitulate so regularly. In fact, it would be rather nice to use that feeling of being unwelcome guests at a swish party to hang around for a bit and get under the skin of a few of the toffs.
But we’re not good enough to do that either. Miles away from being good enough.
I’ll steer clear (for now) around why ultimately this squad is not good enough because that earned me a right old bruising last week – dissent around the club’s owners is, it seems, very quickly shut down – but there’s no escaping the fact the summer recruitment was little short of disastrous.
We have somehow ended up with a squad and starting XI that’s weaker than the one we won promotion with last season. A couple of the loan players have had their moments, but it’s hard to see how any of them have made us better.
For all his undoubted energy and grit, has Williams added any more quality down that left side that Giannoulis wouldn’t have? I certainly know which one is the better player when we’re on the front foot.
And for all the class and promise shown by Normann in those few pre-op games, we’ve seen a very different player since he’s returned. A fitness/form issue maybe, but he’s offered little in the last few games.
Gilmour aand Kabak have both, in different ways, been car crashes.
And of the permanent signings, only Rashica has looked like he could eventually become a Premier League regular. The rest look like Championship players.
All in all, it’s a proper ol’ mess and those from outside the club who have described us as ’embarrassing’ are partly right. Our performances have been.
I just find that tough to take from the same mouths that then go on to laud Chelsea’s success and the miraculous £85-million-funded turnaround at St James’ Park.
So, we just find ourselves in this state of footballing purgatory – unable and unwilling for, all the right reasons, to allow this club to fall into the hands of someone or something of obscene wealth, while being also totally ill-equipped to contest football games in the top flight because we’re so poorly funded.
Quite how that circle is ever squared, I have absolutely no idea. It probably isn’t.
In the short term… Championship here we come.
Spot on, Gary. A few random thoughts.
Leeds deserved to win. But PL reffing confuses me. Attwell should have been sent off for the amount of rash and dangerous challenges he made and according to Radio Norfolk we should have had a penalty in the first half.
But hey according to Radio Norfolk, and looking at the highlights we didn’t deserve anything. I love Brandon Williams’ attitude but he can’t defend. It’s all very depressing. I’d also like to know why the team was so unfit for Project Restart 2 years ago. No one has taken responsiblity for that. Stuart Webber needs to front up – he’ll probably wait until we’re a mathematical certainty to go down. If Sorensen’s fit, why doesn’t he get a game? he seemed a natural for the Skipp position.
Ah well, nine games to get the four points then.
VAR had a poor weekend overall, but that non sending off and the non penalty were risible.
Can we ,in the remaining games , please only play players who will be here next season . That means no more Williams, Kabak, Gilmorc ,and Normann this season.
I am surprised you say you were “shutdown” Gary on the subject dissent around the owners. I think after two failed, no that’s the wrong word, calamitous EPL seasons hard working fans have every right to ask questions.
It is all very well and good for two millionaires to travel around the country in comfort compared to the away fans who have to go by car, bus or train. And with little change out of £ 100 +.
We haven’t been competitive at all. And I think this squad is worse than the one of two years ago.
That side endured the worst injury crisis in my 55 years of supporting City. And Covid.
No excuses on that scale this time round.
So I am afraid Stuart Daniel Farke has been proved correct, this is not a squad equipped for EPL survival by ant stretch of the imagination and there is little doubt of that now.
I read all the comments last week and felt the good majority were in favour of at least looking for investment and a potential takeover.
But you are right the recruitment in the summer was disastrous. Something I have felt and said on here for a very long while now.
Don’t be bruised and shut down Gary. If any time was to question what the hell the motives and plans are from Smith (Delia), Jones and Webber, then it is now. Alleged EPL conspiracies and VAR aside, this season has been an unmitigated shambles from start to finish.
I’m expecting the “lessons will be learned” mantra from the club anytime soon (copyright Mr B. Johnson, Westminster).
Hi Jason
I doubt we’ll get even that cliché from them anytime soon tbh.
Although we’re the *best supporters in the land* sometimes those at the helm simply do not want to acknowledge us, the sans culottes. Aside from our regular financial commitment we are a bl00dy nuisance to them.
Marie Antoinette comes to mind sometimes 🙂
I have to agree with Tim here Gary. The impression I got last week from the response to your tackling that thorny subject was overwhelming support for your views. In the wider world outside support for that view appears unanimous.
A decade ago I fell out of love with Formula 1. The rules changed yearly and it became unrecognizable as the sport I enjoyed. Inevitably I stopped watching it. I fear football is headed in the same direction. For all I know every decision VAR checked, or didn’t check, may have been correct by the letter of the law. But to my eye their first shouldn’t have counted, they should have been a player down, and we should have had a penalty. I am apparently incorrect in 2022, but would have been correct in 2010. So who knows what to expect in 2025.
However, that’s all a distraction to the fact our team was overrun by a downtrodden, out of form, yet massively more skillful Leeds. We looked like a Championship side. We have most of this season. Who is at fault for that?
I have to look at the perennial owners who offer nothing and the half decade long tenure of a Sporting Director who has landed us squarely in the position where he took over. Back in the Championship with an oversized squad of aging or mediocre players.
Honestly, I’m lucky I don’t have to make the decision to renew a an expensive season ticket this summer and put in the effort to travel to the games. The cost of watching will go up from about 40 quid a year (thanks Hulu) to 150ish quid (no thanks iFollow), so us US canaries will take a hit.
It won’t be anything like Norwich’s bottom line though.
Couldn’t agree more on Formula 1 Dave.
Just imagine the fall out if in Horse Racing Sheik Mohammed had two runners in the Derby his the outsider let his more fancied rival pass.
The whole ownership would get a minimum of a two year ban.
Formula 1 is no longer a race.
The Bamford offside decision was ridiculous. Lets say Kabak lets the ball go and Bamford scores, the goal is disallowed by VAR. So no goal then right ?
But there was a goal scored and allowed. Two different outcomes. So how the hell can Bamford be deemed ” not interfering with play” he actually interfered with two potentially different outcomes. Kabak had to header it because of Bamford’s proximity.
Unbelievable.
Mind you it is nowhere near as bad as Newcastle’s penalty shout re- Murphy.
M.Rmagoo doing VAR again.
Oh as to ifollow , even in the states use a VPN and negotiate freestreams.com
I hear you and I’m not above a stream when I have no ability to gain access. But I’ve worked in industries hit hard by piracy, so I try to pay if it’s available.
Very entertaining game and finally a game in english league football where players showed passion. Only thing still missing in game like that was group fights between players, so no red cards or deep life time hate promises either. Outside that there was less sense in playing, instead of that high speed trying. Leeds was clearly better, 4-1 should have been fair result but it was very close that Norwich would have stole a point.
Rashica is player which is huge problem to you. Almost everything he do is bad. He is absolutely awful at defending, physically too weak and scared of contact. He is like 30 meters runner, that is his best ability. Its no surprise that he is not effective, his decision making is not good and he is not good passer either. In a game like that which was physical and opponents best player playing in same wing, its like asking to get destroyed. He never tracks back when you loose a ball, he basically is jogging behind without any trying to help. It looks that his stamina is not good either, he give up very easily and because of that he see diving as only option. Football is developing all the time and he is player from past and you should use him only in last moments of game when you are loosing.
Teams like NCFC can’t compete in this league, that’s the bottom line. The Championship and League one is littered with clubs like us, who do not have the financial firepower to mount a challenge, and those that have gambled and failed are paying a massive price. When a team like Brighton, who have an owner who has put in over a billion quid, what possible hope do we have? Chelski’s wage bill per month £28 M, aside from Man City and now Newcastle, who can match that? I hate the fact that the Premier League has chased the money like this, but it didn’t happen overnight, and the owners of NCFC who undoubtedly have the best interests of the club at heart have repeatedly ignored the big money league’s direction of travel for far too long. It might be quaint, but its not competitive.
I think it’s difficult to look at this season without considering the recruitment. The big question for me is whether Webber is trying to perform miracles with limited money therefore it is about Delia moving on or whether it is his ego that has got us to this state and it is a state. This year has been a complete s******w from start to finish. Stats for running around may show you one thing but you can’t teach football intelligence. Some of our players are completely lacking in it. I loathe everything Dyche stands for but he called Gibson completely right.
Lets move on to the recruitment. Why buy Tzolis and Rashica when we needed a CDM, preferably two? Why did we spend £5 on a sub keeper? We needed bigger athletes but we get wee Gilmour and McLean who would not start in any other team at this level. Williams will not make it at Man U. He makes too many mistakes although I like his aggression. We needed some kind of replacement for Emi and Skipp and some muscle in the team instead we sprayed the money up the wall looking for the next young player to turn a profit.
The team is set up like the club. With the exception of Hanley and Williams most are inoffensive, nice blokes who do not want to rock the boat. Play when you are 0-2 down and the opposition are already thinking of their next game? Yes that’s us. Roy Keane was brutal but right. Lambert’s team would never have done this.
I have a certain amount of sympathy with Delia’s dislike of the Premier League as we don’t get the breaks but please don’t project your views on the NCFC fans. I was supporting this club when you were still wearing an 1p5wich scarf.. As a cook Delia knows all about sell by dates. She is way beyond hers. There is a staleness to the club. She needs to move on and actively find a buyer. Carry on as we are and the vitriol that was avoided by the lockdown games will be there for all to see in the final games.
Is it just me or does Dean Smith seem like completely the wrong choice? He just doesn’t seem to fit. He has made no more impression than the caretakers before Farke was appointed. He is middling and inoffensive which fits just right. I’d love to see a young, ambitious coach come in and re-set things. Maybe we could persuade Daniel back as DOF in place of Webber? Get the likes of Holty and Rod Newman back. They’ve played the game, care about the club and can spot a player. Football is played on a pitch, not a spreadsheet. I expect the usual suspects will attack this view but I started supporting this club in 1970 and have followed them through thick and thin. I want to enjoy some success in the years I have left and see a club with an ethos and more especially a direction. We’re a long way from it at the moment.
I find it very hard to disagree with a single word of this.
Hi Supermac
Fantastic post and I agree with all of it – I bet very many others of us do as well.
Great post. An awful lot I agree with there.
Well Saturday set a new record City are the first team ever in the premiership to go 6 games straight without a win 3 times in the same season.
I bet Delia will be proud of that record to go along with the lowest ever spend on promotion a couple of seasons back.
Oh and the most relegations we will beat WBA this season
Yep I too remember Delia in her blue and white scarf back in,1978.
Hi Bernie
Once seen an image can never be forgotten.
In exile you’re surely entitled to a second team even if only to ensure a good day out with your mates and there are at least three of us on MFW who follow the Spurs from a distance to this day as in me, Alex B and Tim B. Others too?
The THFC scarf was a different shade of blue to the one Delia wore, mind.
Ok I take the Mr Gould comment upon which team he’s picking for Wales at the world cup . He said easy Brazil. So should I support Citeh cos they win stuff
Very well said. It’s annoying to say the least that so many Yellows simply fawn at the feet of The Stowmarket Two and refuse to see that the reason for our decline (in PL terms at least) is these two. Managers come and go, CEO’s come and go, players come and go but the stubborn owner(s) remain. The club is increasingly run like an ‘old boys’ network, The Board of Directors is small and a closed shop. The fans refuse to rebel and with no Crown Jewels left to sell to fund the ‘model’, god knows what to expect next season. The long run of ‘lauding it over Ipswich’ also looks as if it may well be running to a closure. Altogether a far from exciting summer to look forward to!.
As a wise person once said, “win some, lose some”
We do seem to have the monopoly on finding new and ever more painful ways to lose some though.
On the pitch, I just don’t know what the answer is. Who wouldn’t have preferred Rupp in Central midfield? And yet he was hauled off after 45 abject minutes.
Gibson went from 4th choice to team captain. Then proceeded to five a 4th choice display.
I have no answer, and neither does Dean Smith.
Its hard not to come to the conclusion that match officials are briefed to aid our opposition along the way, as if they need it. Attwell and Co gave a performance lacking in honesty and integrity, which I would gladly say to all of their faces.
Even so, our deficiencies run deeper than bent refs.
Gary rightly points out the impact of young Rowe, surely worth a run from the start. Quite how a kid from the academy has leapfrogged a 9 million pound import, who is 2 years older is a question for our Stuart. That’s of his sabbatical allows. It’s shocking that as the man responsible for directing sport, webber is free to spend the season ticking items off his bucket list instead of…. directing some sport.
I’ll leave lady gaga out of this week’s diatribe, mainly because I’m sick to the back teeth of her.
In conclusion, the most lacking ingredient is PRIDE. In their position, their profession, their club, their city, themselves.
The I don’t give a shit attitude whereby results and performances are immaterial until the criticism becomes too vocal seeps down from the top into every aspect of the club. Everywhere one looks the lack of professionalism and care is overwhelming. It’s a social club.
I have read elsewhere that Mrs webber is poised to join the board of directors. Cronyism and rewarding failure. Thank God we’ve got three weeks away.
Sorry Gary only read your title that’s how much time I think this shambles of a club is worth at the moment and in response to your title what you expect lol.
How many other clubs have an ex groundsman in charge of recruitment without no professional knowledge, I mean it’s laughable it really is where is our scouting system why aren’t people like Darren Huckerby or other Legends scouting for us and why haven’t we got a legend as director of football Malky Mckay just as an example.
We are a JOKE this season we cannot beat clubs around us and we must accept our fate and Stuart Webber Must fall on his sword !!
The reason we haven’t got Newman, Mckay is very simple they would stand up to Delia and tell her what the club need to succeed.
Webber knows who pays the piper picks the tune and he knows how to you the line.
Positives yesterday:
1) Jonathan Rowe
2) The Jonathan Rowe song to the tune of ‘Rockin all over the World’.
That is all.
People in little ol norfolk dont like change,thats why alot of fans are against a takeover of ownership.They dont want billionaire’s anywhere near carrow road.So while theres still old f##ts around nothing will change.The self funding model will go t##s up before long as there wont be parachute payments or young talented players to sell for millions.Then what?League 1 or 2?The club has had a big chance these last few years to establish themselves to be an epl club and wasted it,cant see that happening for a few years again now,but then Delia doesnt like the epl,apart from the money side of it!!!As for yesterday’s game not one of our players bust a gut and have already waved the white flag,
With her announcement in the EEN I think some will take that as a red flag and she might not like the repercussions that could soon start
I was under the impression that there is a growing support against the Smith`s ownership . The bottom line is that self funding is not viable , in any league ! Delia Smith doesn’t have the money to invest so please sell to someone who has the finances and ambition .
In my opinion she is delusional and belligerent, digging her heals in not to sell . Well, City fans deserve better !!
With due diligence I am sure a buyer could be found . The Thai owners of Leicester appear to be reasonable owners .
Regrettably football is a business and with any business comes risk . Selling would not come without risk , but sticking with Delia in my opinion is a greater risk . Without parachute money and no players to sell at a profit, City will find themselves languishing in league 1 or worse ! I started watching Norwich when I was 11 years old ,in the old tin shed that was the Barclay Stand . I continued going for many years . Since Delia bought the club I have been a handful of times . Now, I absolutely refuse to go ,I could not bear the thought of just 1 pence of my hard earned money going into the pockets of the millionaire socialist !!! square that circle if you can !!!!
“City fans deserve better”. Do we though? Really? Are these the same City fans who (rightly) lauded both the board and Webber when we won not one but two unlikely promotions? The same fans who called for Farke to be sacked and were pleased with the appointment of Dean Smith?
Speaking as someone in my 50th year as a season ticket holder I don’t think we are a shambles, a disgrace, a laughing stock or any of the other overblown terms used above. We are having a disappointing season brought on by a poor performance in recruiting for this season having lost our two best players. And even if we recruited better why do we feel that we have a right to be amongst the top 20 clubs in the country? Newsflash – 3 teams will get relegated each year from the premier league!
We are the same size club as Ipswich, West Brom, Stoke, Birmingham, Sunderland, Sheffield Utd & Weds, Coventry, Derby etc etc. It is not the self funding model that is broken it is football and I for one would rather support a club with the ambition to try to do things the right way than take dirty money from murderers, crooks, slave traders and other assorted scum from around the world.
Not an entirely popular view I accept but as a “long standing” (i.e old) supporter I daresay that I will be considered part of the problem by many on here. I am disappointed by this season and by our clubs treatment of DF who should never have been sacked, but I will also try to take a long term view and, speaking as someone who runs a business, I wouldn’t be prepared to take the risks with my business that so many on here seem to want us to take with our club. OTBC
Hi ‘Boot’ – fair comment.
I never want to see any massive risks taken with the stewardship of the club – I don’t think anyone wants that – but equally I refuse to believe that Delia and Michael are literally the only people equipped to own and run this football club.
Yes, we have had it relatively good compared to the clubs you list but we’ve also blown several opportunities to stay in the PL for more than one season. I don’t see anything wrong with desperately wanting that to be the case and then feeling deflated and a bit let down when we yet again fail to get even close to achieving it.
And yes, I do think we have become a bit of a Premier League laughing stock, unfortunately.
Who is doing the laughing Gary? Any of the clubs in the lower leagues I mentioned who would trade p,aces in a heartbeat or the type of club in the Prem who is happy to swallow their principles in order to take filthy blood money from despotic regimes and their supporters?
Let them and the Murdoch phone tapping moronic media laugh away, I for one am proud to support a club with principals…..and if I have a little chuckle at Chelski’s expense perhaps I can be forgiven.
Hi Boot ,
Really, Really, you actually think The Smiths have principals !!! Unfortunately, you are very naïve! I have yet to meet a principled multi-millionaire! Not sure I would take Saudi money, but then again.
Unfortunately, the whole world is corrupt, UK Government, Football, F 1.
May I ask you boot, will you be watching the world cup in Qatar, where about 6000 foreign workers have lost their lives because of non-existent health & safety, workers have died of heat exhaustion, working in 50c heat. It’s a horrible world, just follow the money !!!
On one hand, you accuse people of using “overblown” phrases when describing another season of record breaking garbage. You yourself the use the term “disappointing”, which is the definition of underblown
I think most fans are dissapointed again that we get promoted and then do next to nothing to keep up there and thats the most annoying thing.Like in buisness,if you have a record turnover you either work on that to improve even further or work hard on making sure you dont fall too far down again.With our model we only have one choice and thats to fall back down again.
Couldn’t agree more.
Hi Gary
Good read
From a poor game where again city were bullied and Ref turned a blind eye to the most blatant ones just to have a quiet Sunday and not upset the Dirty Leeds supporters.
Delia got her announcement out after a poor game against Chelsea and the players knew they are never going to be successful, the Captain for the day just keeps getting worse at £9m Burnley lost a packet now it looks like we will follow suit.
I did read that DS&SS were on a big bonuses to keep us up I hope they have started the long wave goodbye as there will be nothing coming from that happening.
Was Webber clever enough to insert a break clause in their contract or will he convince them to battle for promotion personally I think a clean break from the owners down to the manager.
A championship side would have performed better. We have spent too much paying people off and end up with a manager who picks the same side as his predecessor. He’s got the excuse that there was nothing he could do but we’ve done nothing to improve. What good is money to a club that doesn’t know how to use it?
What good is it to have owners that are happy to struggle against the obvious and then tell anyone and everyone that she can’t afford to run the club like the super rich put then says she isn’t interested in getting investors in to help the club be a success.
It’s her toy and she will not let anyone else play, but it’s not her toy she is the custodian and she will leave it in a much worse state after 25yrs that it was when she got her hands on it.
This is the third time this season we’ve lost 6 league games on the trot. Pitiful.
And (in the style of Kent Brockman) this includes such results as 3-0, 3-0, 3-0, 4-0, 5-0, 5-0, & 7-0. Pathetic.
17 points accumulated from 29 games. Dismal.
18 goals scored in 29 games. Easily the worst tally in the top five tiers of English professional football. Execrable.
63 goals conceded in 29 games. Laughably incompetent.
We are an embarrassment to the game. The other clubs, their fans and the media can’t even be bothered to criticise us anymore. We are an irrelevance and utterly beneath contempt. How humilating.
And the worst of it all is this is the second time we’ve done it. Nil lessons learned. Every single person associated with this club should hang their heads in shame.
Buy a new season ticket? I should cocoa. I wanna refund for the last two shambles.
PS. The label ‘self-funding’ does not apply to City and has been incorrectly used by the club. The club’s stated model is to run at a loss and to sell a player every season or so to make up the deficit. That’s not ‘self-funded’, that’s ‘insufficiently funded’. Which is a lot worse than ‘self-funded’. It will all end in tears…
PPS. Several fans have offered thanks to Delia and Michael for ‘all they’ve done for the club’. Well, reportedly, apart from buying their way onto the board on the cheap initially; over the next 25 years they’ve given (or more likely, lent) a total of only £2M to the club. That works out at around £80,000 a year. Equivalent to two players’ current wages. Compared to the amounts of money poured into most other league clubs over the same period it is somewhat astonishing we are anywhere near the Premier League. A curiously remarkable and unlikely achievement. I don’t know whether to feel proud or seriously short-changed.
After 50+ years I’m not sure if I want to go to a game anymore. The least I expect is effort.
Gary,
Your comment:- no escaping the fact the summer recruitment was little short of disastrous.
If only it were that good….I feel “disastrous” is being far too kind.
Having just heard that Chelski have a minimum of 20 recognised and approved bidders, how is it that we are unable to find even one who is prepared to cough up a fraction of the amount Chelski are supposedly on the market for.
Oh; and if Smith (Dean) is such a bringer on of talent, why does he continue with Pointer McClean whilst ignoring the vastly superior Sorensen??
Embarrassed and totally underwhelmed doesn’t even come close.
O T B C
I may be wrong here but I didn’t see too many dissenting voices over the signings of Gilmore, Normann, Williams, Kabak, Rachica, Tzsolis etc. when they were announced. I’m fact there was a lot of positivity.
With the benefit of hindsight it’s now quite evident that the assembled squad is simply not good enough. It really is quite fickle of “supporters” to be coming out now slating the ownership, Webber, the manager(s), basically everyone involved in the running of the football club.
For a club like Norwich to lose and replace its two best players, Buendia and Skipp is near an impossible task and by the way both wanted to move on. All supporters would welcome huge investment to somehow try to level the playing field but there are clubs littered around the country who rolled that particular dice and lost.
On that, those who are clamouring for new wealthy owners, I have one question, who in their right mind would be willing to throw money at a club to simply “try” to survive in the Premier League, please tell me what the incentive would be?
Be careful what you wish!!!
What i wish for would be for Delia to retire to the bahama’s or somewhere!!!So why do a club like Barnsley get money thrown at it?
Nice to see the Boot put the sulky sob sobs to the sword. I’ve never ever met anyone who defers to the major shareholders. Everyone I know thinks the current ownership of the football club has made serious errors. We are football fans for gods sake, so we all know better, and have a answer for every infrastructure issue or whatever. What some of us are not so tolerant of, is parochial prejudice, political bias and misogyny towards those who are temporarily overseeing the club, and who have the clubs interests at heart.
Given how poor this season has been, I’d suggest it’s normal, as a football fan, to be a bit of a “sulky sob”.
If you’ve been able to smile and clap your way through it, then good for you.
But it’d be pretty weird if this site carried not a word of criticism of a club that has performed so poorly on and off the pitch.