From Despair To Where? Having grown up watching League 1 football, it doesn't bother me.
It's the nervous excitement on the morning of matchday, it's the anticipation of a hard fought game that gets me interested. This is the first season in years where I've got that
Even in the Premiership, I didn't give a shit about who was on the opposition side, I came to the match to watch Reading and Reading alone. I want us to have a fighting chance and give our all and I don't really care what league we're in because, barring the Premiership, it's all relative,
Interesting take on watching games-I feel the opposite in that part of the enjoyment is seeing the opposition players even at the lower level and spotting those that might step up and reach the higher levels of the game.
The difference between us is probably that I am a fan of football (can't get enough of it on TV as well as going), whereas you are just a fan of Reading.
Nothing wrong with either views IMHO and I guess that the majority of fans only want to see their team win regardless of how it happens.
As a youngster I desperately wanted Reading to win every game but now in later life I want to see the odd spectacular goal (Lewis Wing thank you) or some brilliant passing moves (Roberts and Clarke for Sunderland last season) and the result is not so important anymore.
The Championship can be a dire slog for teams and players on big wages who think they are worthy of top level football-in most cases they are not.
At our current level you see players that are trying hard even if they don't have the ability and at Premier level I see players who do things that I could never do.
So, on balance this level is ok (like the earlier poster it is where I came in) and the Prem is great if you want to see top players and not too worried about the result.
The only really enjoyable seasons in the Championship for me were McGhee's time and Coppell,s-McGhee's because of the style and Coppell's for the style and the realisation that we had a team that would hold it's own at the top level.
McDermott's team was just functional and, without investment, was doomed to do a Sheffield United.
If we were to get promoted to the Championship I would hope it would be with a team like Ipswich this season which was good enough to make a real challenge, just as when with Coppell's side we knew that we would compete at the top level and be capable of beating teams like Spurs and West Ham.
For the moment though let''s hope that the club stays in business and that we can hold on to Bindon, Wing and Knibbs as well as Yiadom to last another year and start to build something worth watching -not much has been worth watching for the past 10 years or so apart from the improvement of the past few weeks when the players, fans and manager have been very much together in our time of need.
