Quote Originally Posted by Letters View Post
And last year it was only Utd or City. From a month in it was clear one of the two would win it.
Yes, Chelsea will probably be in the mix next year as they're buying their way in so it'll be a case of which billionaire wins it.
Competitive. Yaay.

Football does pre-date the late nineties you know. Back in the 60s and 70s you'd have a different clubs winning it most years, The year we won the Double in '71 Everton finished 14th. The previous season they'd been champions and we'd finished 12th. Surely it's better in a sport where at the start of a season you just don't know what's going to happen and there's always hope your team could do something - and that hope extends to fans of many clubs. There weren't these huge gaps between the haves and have nots.

Now it's down to 2 or 3 teams. More competitive than the late 90s and early noughties, maybe. Less competitive than at pretty much any time prior to that though.
Are you saying you didnt' enjoy the late nineties and early noughties when we were one of the two teams though? The problem here is the fact we're never one of the genuine competitors, we're always outside that group and never seemingly moving forward or even trying to.

Having a team you believe in, who have some steel about them and whom you feel can deliver on the biggest stage is hugely enjoyable (even if you don't win). When we had our best teams there were some huge highs and huge lows, but the reason we had those lows is because we were genuinely disappointed when we lost, now we expect it so the disappointment is minimal, certainly for me, when we lose it's disappointing but not to the extent it once was, I dont really think we have a hope of winning anything and thus when we fail I'm already prepared for this.