It was the liverpool game for me. Emelyn hughes splitting his shorts, the crowd all started laughing in unison. Great passion. How could a young lad not resist but join in?
My day you had Liverpool / arsenal / Man U to look forward to. Now it's a 35 mile journey then Colchester Crawley or Shrewsbury. I thought I had won my son to the sky blue. Since he was 4 he had the replica kits, the sky blue lunchboxes, ffs he named his budgie Oggy! Now he cheers against the sky blues. He sees them as Northampton Sky Blues not Coventry City! As such there is absolutely no connection for him. He now follows premier league.
And how can I blame him really? He wants to watch high quality football, not hoofball on an ex dump but only when it hasn't rained for a month! It was easy for my generation to get involved. We had Top level football opposition. It is easy to get excited by that. 0-0 away to Carlisle on a snowy tuesday evening forget it