BR2melonheadWe come back to the old question of whether we go to football only to see our team win at any cost or do we go to enjoy the style of football that we play and at the same time hope for success.
im sorry- but i fail to see how anyone who supports reading does so because they hoped for any success, apart from if they started supporting under steve coppell, & under coppell the football was exciting, mostly because we were successful, but it wasnt really beautiful.
i also fail to see how they could possibly do it for the amazingly beautiful team football(possibly unless they did it under mcgee)
for most of our history, we have been neither successful nor beautiful.
so it seems churlish to begin demanding either, now.
You never saw the Mansell team then.
Just one season of fantastic attacking football with loads of goals,that was indeed beautiful and successful if only judged on giving Man Utd a real game in the Watney cup final.
Churlish maybe but football surely is all about dreams isn't it rather than just accepting what you are given?
footballs about getting your dreams crushed,
and humiliation,
and embarrassment,
and pain,
and misery, punctuated by fleeting moments of joy so wonderful that it hurts.
of course its about dreams and hopes, but that doesnt mean youd stop supporting them if they didnt deliver everything you hoped for.