Danny Cowley had a saying he used quite a lot. Oh, this club
or that club, they’re a year ahead of us, or we’re two years from them. I
suspect what he meant was, don’t expect too much just yet. He was wrong of course
or at least he didn’t mean that at all because the goodies just kept on rolling
in.
Yesterdays win against Wimbledon was just the kind of
performance that brings rewards. City were certainly not at their best but had
a bit too much for their opponents. That’s the way it goes usually. Very few
sides are totally dominant all the time, to be successful you often have to be
a bit better, have a bit of luck, don’t make so many mistakes.
As for being ready, who is? Listening to Clive Nates on BBC
Radio Lincolnshire yesterday his attitude seems to be, you get promoted, we’ll
worry about the finances. It’ll be a worry too. We were a big fish in a small
pond in non-league, not that we always behaved like it. In league two City were
still a sizeable animal, thanks largely to said Mr Cowley, a forward-thinking
board, investors who aren’t afraid to invest and you, my dear fellow fans,
turning up in the numbers you have.
Now in league one we’re a relative minnow and worse than
that we fans sit at home so you get a double whammy of less income, at a time
its desperately needed and our vocal support, that I hope also plays a part. To
get promoted yet higher would surely blow the fuse. It would mine.
Talking of Clive Nates, it was my birthday recently and I
received a happy birthday message from him. Now I’m sure a lot of you will say,
don’t flatter yourself, so did I. In a modern business it’s not that difficult
to do that sort of thing although I’d imagine quite a lot of clubs would be too
grand or would regard their supporters as cannon fodder and not wish to dirty
their hands communicating with the hoi polloi but not our Clive. Furthermore it
was not a standard message delivered at the push of a button in the office
because when I replied wishing him and everyone at the club a Happy Christmas I
got a reply to that. What sort of chairman would find time, on Christmas Eve to
wish a happy birthday to one of thousands of supporters? The best sort I’d say.
In a time of, to put it bluntly, charlatans taking over football clubs, I could
name some but won’t, stripping those clubs of their assets or running them into
the ground, how lucky did we get landing Clive Nates in these uncertain times?
Very very lucky gets nowhere near.
As to the game, I suppose we should at least touch on that and
I’m glad I spent a tenner to watch it on i follow rather than do as I usually
do and listen to the commentary on the radio. I’ve noticed our commentary team
get a bit of stick lately but, come on, sat there in reception as a result of
the current travel restrictions producing a commentary as good as that watching
the game on i follow just like we were I say well done. I know some of the
sports team follow me on twitter so may read this so I say again, well done.
I say well done to our team too. Wimbledon were none too
shabby, they won’t have to play many teams as good as us and I think they’ll be
alright. It was good to see Alex Woodyard again, he’s lost his way a bit, but I’d
have him back. It’s a salutary lesson in his case, taking the Peterborough United
shilling and then realising the grass isn’t always greener. Oh, and Ollie Palmer
scored against a former club. Imagine my surprise!
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