Being a Swindon fan certainly does feed the persecution complex.
What with everyone going nuts about us being £13 million in debt and national papers and radio presenters calling us cheats, while Preston announcing debts of £46 million a couple of weeks later leads to nobody giving a shit.
And everyone praising Eddie Howe for being a fantastic young manager at Bournemouth (something i don't necessarily disagree with) for turning around a struggling squads fortunes since he returned, while Di Canio's efforts in turning around a newly relegated club from the bottom division (and with the soul sucked out of the club) to third in league 1 in a season and a half is always written off as being just about having lots of money, even though the squad Howe has at his disposal cost at least double Di Canio's.
And on the subject of Bournemouth, still literally no-one seeming to give a fuck they're spending way more than us with a smaller turnover but our outgoings on players being a source of much greater outrage (with much gnashing of teeth heard).
And Luke Mcormick training with us creating national headlines and angry vitriol from supporters around the country, while him actually signing for Oxford leads to barely a mention anywhere in the press.
And the football league pulling the rug from under us a few minutes before the January transfer window closes while clubs with no owners are free to sign away to their hearts content (okay, maybe there's sound legal reasons for that one and i'm being a bit biased, but i still think it's unfair).
And this is just within the last couple of months! What is it about this club that makes everyone else so full of sound and fury? Maybe we're really just all c*nts who are too blinkered to realise, but at the moment my attitude to the rest of the football world feels like a big
FUCK YOU!
Excellent post, as always.
You forgot to mention the fact that we have been asked to pay the first and second highest ever* tribunal-decided fees for players.
*
I may have made that up
