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Re: Trouble
two reasons why people watch non-league football.
1/ Support your local team or town that you were born in
2/ Able to watch real grass roots stuff. When you sing - your voice means something as only a handful of people are joining in with you. You dont want to be the one that stops first cos everybody stops then. Everybody (to a degree) knows you. It may only be a cursory nod but they all recognise your face. The players, chairman, manager and kitman know you, and frequently by name. When you fundraise it is because they really need it whether for a tin of paint or diesel for the team coach. You are a part of the club rather than a face in a crowd.
For a few hundred pence more I could support Rovers or Burnley. I could travel on a full coach to away games and urinate in nicer bogs. I could get served within a couple of minutes at the half time bar rather waiting 10 minutes or missing 10 minutes of football to sit inside and drink from a glass. I could sit rather than stand, I could sing songs about Crows arses or Jack Walker asking me to play, No nay never, give me real football every week. If I called Robbie Savage a dirty welsh git would he hear me let alone remember me? No he wouldn't, but Colin Caton will always remember Loweiy. Arthur Williams will always remeber Plum soiling his towel with a freshly liberated from the pie shed brown sauce squeegee bottle. Hanson Jerome will always remember me singing my liltman song to him and I'll aways remember nearly crapping myself when he telled me to 'shut yoo fooking mooth man'.
The crowds have gone up since them days but the craic is nearly the same. I dont think we'll ever get high enough to lose that, but Premiership? I dont ever want to be there thank you
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