Any medium or long-time Poppies fan knows about suffering. And the cold, hard fear that comes with being, on a handful of occasions, within a hairs-breadth of losing our club. This knowledge, does impart, though, a sense of calm when a few results go against us.
No-one minds when fans take defeat badly. It's a natural reaction. If we didn't care who won or lost a game, we'd all be rugby fans. Where some of our fans get out of line is that they believe their personal anger trumps everyone else's. They seem to think that because they scream loudest at the players, or bravely on social media that no-one else feel it as badly as they do. Not the players. Or club officials. Or the other supporters. They're wrong of course. We all feel it. But some of us can see beyond that day's match. Club officials need to see beyond the next match, the next month and even the next season.
When a football club has nothing to worry about other than the actual football, a lot of people must be doing a lot of things right. A football club is a living organism where numerous people put in, mostly unseen effort to keep the show on the road. Ninety minutes on a Saturday every fortnight is the very tip of the iceberg.
Having peered over the brink more times than any of us can remember, all of our thoughts are with the supporters of Bury today who would dearly love to have nothing more to vex them than a below par performance at the weekend. Hopefully this serves as a wake-up call this morning for every football supporter who still has their club and wants them to mortgage their future to chase immediate success.
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