WiganSkyBlue
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Here are just 2 postings on the PNE forum.
This one
CCFC cheats have had it coming for many years. The floodlight cheats, who failed the floodlights every year so as to play games against weakened sides after the season had ended so they could stay up, are now getting their comeupance. May CCFC rot way down in the far distant lower reaches of the Football League pyramid. Hopefully never to return again! Where were CCFC in our hour of need? In the days of 91st in the Football League and the plastic pitch? Not a peep out of them then! How dare they tell us we should not turn up to support our team. Who the hell do they think they are!? I'm a PNE supporter. I'm going to watch the game at Northampton. I urge every other true PNE supporter, who can go, to do likewise.
And this
Whilst I back Cov fans who are staying away from Northampton, I'm a bit surprised by their lack of action. AFC Wimbledon were formed in 2002, before the original Wimbledon had even moved the Milton Keynes. And FC United were formed in 2005 (I think) when the Glaziers took over. But Cov fans have done nothing except to tell people not to put money into the pockets of SISU without giving them an alternative.
I've been to see both AFC Wimbledon & FC United and their fans are first class. So much passion which is sadly missing from most clubs these days. And true football fans would go and watch their team regardless of what league they were playing in.
Cov fans on here say that we should boycott the game this season because the same could happen to us. Yes, in theory it could happen to us. But Preston North End are more important to the English game than Coventry City. And we'd gain more sympathy from the wider football world. The history of the two clubs don't compare one bit. Okay, Cov played in the top flight for about 30 years but they didn't exactly challenge at the top end.
I wasn't going to go to the game this season but £16 a ticket and £10 coach travel is a tempting proposition. After all, our players are already having the disadvantage of longer travelling distance, a lesser ground and on a different day. Why should they also play a professional game virtually behind closed doors?
Very few showing any sympathy, some even arrogant, and some even blaming Jimmy Hill for the start of the demise, presumably alluding to the ending of the maximum wage. So depressing that the football family is as divided as we seem to be, judging by some posts on here.
With views like this, and the polarisation that is occurring amongst ourselves, my 50+ years love affair with the beautiful game is taking a severe knocking.
This one
CCFC cheats have had it coming for many years. The floodlight cheats, who failed the floodlights every year so as to play games against weakened sides after the season had ended so they could stay up, are now getting their comeupance. May CCFC rot way down in the far distant lower reaches of the Football League pyramid. Hopefully never to return again! Where were CCFC in our hour of need? In the days of 91st in the Football League and the plastic pitch? Not a peep out of them then! How dare they tell us we should not turn up to support our team. Who the hell do they think they are!? I'm a PNE supporter. I'm going to watch the game at Northampton. I urge every other true PNE supporter, who can go, to do likewise.
And this
Whilst I back Cov fans who are staying away from Northampton, I'm a bit surprised by their lack of action. AFC Wimbledon were formed in 2002, before the original Wimbledon had even moved the Milton Keynes. And FC United were formed in 2005 (I think) when the Glaziers took over. But Cov fans have done nothing except to tell people not to put money into the pockets of SISU without giving them an alternative.
I've been to see both AFC Wimbledon & FC United and their fans are first class. So much passion which is sadly missing from most clubs these days. And true football fans would go and watch their team regardless of what league they were playing in.
Cov fans on here say that we should boycott the game this season because the same could happen to us. Yes, in theory it could happen to us. But Preston North End are more important to the English game than Coventry City. And we'd gain more sympathy from the wider football world. The history of the two clubs don't compare one bit. Okay, Cov played in the top flight for about 30 years but they didn't exactly challenge at the top end.
I wasn't going to go to the game this season but £16 a ticket and £10 coach travel is a tempting proposition. After all, our players are already having the disadvantage of longer travelling distance, a lesser ground and on a different day. Why should they also play a professional game virtually behind closed doors?
Very few showing any sympathy, some even arrogant, and some even blaming Jimmy Hill for the start of the demise, presumably alluding to the ending of the maximum wage. So depressing that the football family is as divided as we seem to be, judging by some posts on here.
With views like this, and the polarisation that is occurring amongst ourselves, my 50+ years love affair with the beautiful game is taking a severe knocking.
