I hope we don't go down because if we can somehow cling on this season the tide might, just might turn. All the years we held on to first division football then premier league football there was always an argument that if we went down we could come back stronger. Well so much for that theory. The reality is that the club is totally handicapped by finances and unless that changes we will go down eventually. I do accept that it will probably be this year.
But there's a difference this time. The third tier is too low for us just as it realistically was too low for Man City, Leeds, Leicester, Southampton and Norwich. It will also be too low for Sheff wed and Utd and for Charlton, they'll all come back and so will we.
We are too big a city with too strong a tradition to remain there. Our ground will make a mockery of most of the others and so will our support because once we start winning and winning well it won't matter what league we're in, people will come and enjoy it. It may not be the first season but it won't be long.
And then when we do come back we'll have the support and momentum again. Everything turns eventually. We'll never be in the Champions League but one day we will be back in the Premiership - we will.
The thing to do now is make this whole situation a motivator for stubborn support, like Man City did. We make it a point of still singing defiantly and next year we travel in numbers. I've seen it in sport so often, like fans singing even more when they are being hammered, singing 'we're going to win 5-4' that sort of thing.
We the fans didn't get us into this mess, we'll still be here after the crap board and crap players have fucked off (well I will) and when the fun starts we'll be there.
