In Defence of the Fans

You may be surprised that I agree with both of you here.
The die hards are certainly up there with the most devoted fans out there, and their support is first class. Admittedly even they have been subdued and are turning against this present manager and team based in the current non performances.
My gripes revolve around the home moaners who never have a good thing to say. I only wish that they would do the Wigan walk before the game in another direction. It really pisses me off that there is a particular bloke that sits directly behind me in es3 chuntering the whole game, talking miserable bollocks and making a bad experience even worse. Why on earth go to the game if that’s your mentality.
Problem is we can’t afford to lose any paying speccys.

I suspect the fans of Wimbledon & Coventry City will disagree with you.

As for loyalty – Portsmouth’s fans have stuck with them as they tumbled through the divisions towards oblivion.[/quote]

I wonder how much vitriol Cov and Wimbledon get from their own townsfolk Portsmouth is a big city in a huge catchment area. Wimbledons FA cup win is seen as the greatest upset ever even though they finished 7th in the league and had incredible luck on the day before the money men ruined the game with billions. Our triumph is mentioned under baited breath even though we were simply the better team and outplayed the richest club in England.

Wimbledon had their ground sold from under them, became the tenants of various London clubs before their owners rebranded them 60 miles up the M1.

Coventry’s owners flogged all their assets and then fell out with the stadium owners, leaving a 50 mile trip to Northampton to play home fixtures, before finally going back to the Ricoh as the junior partner to Wasps Rugby, who themselves had de-camped from London to play in Coventry.

Sorry fella, but having a few 50-somethings calling the Latics “Pathetics, Wendyball and Craptics” (and vice versa with Chubbies, parasites) doesn’t even come close to the treatment that Wimbledon or Coventry fans have had to endure. We have a nice ground in Wigan that we play all our home games at, with cheap tickets and an owner who cares about the town and the club.

I still think Pompey fans are the most loyal around when it comes to tolerating failure and mismanagement by owners, managers and players. Eight years ago they had around 20,000 for premier league games. Yesterday there was nearly 17,000 on for a 4th division game at home to Crewe.

Wimbledon had their ground sold from under them, became the tenants of various London clubs before their owners rebranded them 60 miles up the M1.

Coventry’s owners flogged all their assets and then fell out with the stadium owners, leaving a 50 mile trip to Northampton to play home fixtures, before finally going back to the Ricoh as the junior partner to Wasps Rugby, who themselves had de-camped from London to play in Coventry.

Sorry fella, but having a few 50-somethings calling the Latics “Pathetics, Wendyball and Craptics” (and vice versa with Chubbies, parasites) doesn’t even come close to the treatment that Wimbledon or Coventry fans have had to endure. We have a nice ground in Wigan that we play all our home games at, with cheap tickets and an owner who cares about the town and the club.

I still think Pompey fans are the most loyal around when it comes to tolerating failure and mismanagement by owners, managers and players. Eight years ago they had around 20,000 for premier league games. Yesterday there was nearly 17,000 on for a 4th division game at home to Crewe.[/quote]

Spot on