I've been saying for a few weeks that if its not us I want it to be Luton. None of the other teams in the Play Off race have suffered like our two clubs.
I think when you face the prospect of your club going completely out of existence, you learn a new found respect for others teams that have been through similar hardship.
And as for entitlement, try searching either Coventry or Luton in twitter. In fairness 80% of the comments love that its us two in the final. But there are some really ignorant tweets about it being the "worst play off ever".
Completely agree.
I sometimes question why, but Talksport is the radio station that tends to be on in my car. Listening to fans of PL clubs beside themselves with anger about missing out on a European spot, I do often wonder how they’d get on with facing their club folding completely. Back in the Wenger days, the number of Arsenal fans calling in complaining about “only” winning FA cups was unreal. I realise that expectations are higher at big clubs, but I felt like calling in and mentioning that my first Luton game (back in ‘87) was against Man Utd, whereas my son’s first game many years later was against Braintree…Only winning FA cups? Poor souls.
Yeah, I’ve seen a few negative comments about the final. I’d like to think that they come from armchair fans of fashionable clubs that just don’t get it. As you say, the vast majority of football supporters seem to be extremely positive about the two clubs getting to this point after falling so far. Colin Murray wrote a very good article about it recently- he gets it.
With any luck, our clubs being where they are this week really annoys the entitled brigade. They can call it the Isthmian Midlands League PO final if they like, we don’t care, winner is off to the PL.