'Tis the main of many reasons why I stopped posting on football matters. The unending cycle, nay vortex of doom of the football fan.
Every time a new manager comes in he gets a pass for a while. It gets extended if the football is good (Holloway & Shilton for examples). It gets extended if the results are good even if the football isn't (Adam's and Pulis for examples). But ultimately, however the incumbent manages to extend their honeymoon period, sooner or later (and it does seem to be sooner in recent years) the same old wringing of hands and demands for this that and the other starts up.
Round and round this cycle goes in ever decreasing circles. I used to roll my sleeves up and wade in but I think experience eventually showed me that it is pointless even participating in the process. No player stays forever, no manager stays forever, the good times always end, the bad times always end. Far better to just enjoy what you can enjoy while you can enjoy it.
To be Nouble about it, we'll all be dead eventually and you don't get the hours of pointless arguements about the never changing cycle of ups and downs of a bleddy football team back at the end.
I would've thought the absence since last winter of being able to simply go and watch your team play a football match might've engendered a sense of perspective in this regard. The imminent token return of that simple pleasure might've engendered some treasuring of what we have missed.
But no, some mercenaries wearing our badge lost a home game no-one was at led by a manager who good or bad will ultimately depart somewhere else. So 'kin what, it's happened before and it'll happen again.
To most though posting about a defeat seems like a trigger happy game shooter on the glorious 12th, licence to fire off those keys like there's no tomorrow. It always happens, it always has happened and it always will happen... until you reach football supporting nirvana and realise none of this, not one little bit, actually matters.
Just go and watch a match of football. Win, lose or draw just enjoy it and be thankful you can. Kipling's words about treating with equal contempt those imposters called success and failure is equally relevant to football. Nothing is permanent, only constant flux.
Trust me, you'll enjoy football a thousand times more if you ditch all expectations. Just watch what's there, enjoy the game, then go and have your tea. Zero angst, zero baggage, muchos Zen :thumbup: