City pay the penalty for not being famous.

 

Once again we trudged out of the LNER stadium deafened by the cheers of the victors. Sour grapes alert, Wigans following was pathetic, for a team not that long ago in the prem. They were loud though.

I was trying to think, when we were top of a league, whether referees and their assistants, starstruck by our glamour, fell over themselves to award redress for our opponents transgressions or failed to punish our own mis deeds. I don’t think we got anything much but there again we're neither famous nor fashionable, are we?

Yesterday we saw another dazzled in the headlights of our illustrious (tongue in cheek alert) opposition on the part of our referee and assistant who failed to spot, to mention just two, a blatant foul in the box, waved away, you’re not famous and a foul which led to a Wigan goal. You’re not getting that, they used to be in the prem you know.

Michael Appleton maintained this was a good performance by City. I don’t know about that but it certainly wasn’t bad and just to show I’m not completely biased you have to say the Latics were a decent outfit and did what winners do, took their chances.

What I will say is, despite the loss I thought I could see the heart of a decent side in City. There will be quite a bit of tweaking in the close season and maybe one or two surprises to come, as there needs to be given that the Imps still aren’t out of the relegation scrap with few games to come but I’ll say it again, the nucleus is there.

As to the next few games I believe those below us will fail to gain the necessary points to overhaul us as much as City gaining the required points but, even in this stuttering season points have been accumulated along the way so I’m not sweating (yet)

It’s easy to be jealous of the likes of Wigan, down and out one minute and top of the league the next but we should be grateful to our own benefactors, Clive Nates and the Sportvest and other investors who put their money in an unfashionable club in an unfashionable area, just for enjoyment. The least we can do, when the going gets tough, is to recognise what they are doing and the financial and business expertise involved. What’s the alternative? To go back to where we’ve been as long as I’ve been following the Imps. Thanks but no thanks.