Twenty years ago - it sounds like a long time ago but up to around 1995 I was really actively involved in local football. Having successfully ran my own team for several years, we had gained promotions all the way from Division 7 of our local Sunday League - all the way to its very own Premier Division. That statement alone makes it sound quite straightforward and gives the impression that we had a team that were playing for many years below the level that is should have been. The truth is that it we had tough times too - in fact at the end of our third year we had to apply for re-election having finished second from bottom of the lowest division in the entire league! That was without any doubt the most painful season as we had lost 16 of the 22 matches that we had played of which 12 of those 16 defeats was by the odd goal! We actually finished the season with a far better goal difference than other teams that had finished well above us. If you finish that low you should be able to accept that your players, your team, your club even - are just simply not good enough to compete at that level. If that level is the bottom level as it then maybe you should not be competing at all, If we had been regularly been getting beaten fives, sixes or even worse still then fair enough - we would have all agreed that we were simply that bad. But when you are losing 2-1, 3-2, 4-3 and so on just about every week - it really hurt. So we did not have a team that were just pot-hunters - we were a team that evolved and for sure, over a period of time the faces changed in the team but at no point did we really have a mass exodus as players were kicked out to make way for a new flock that would take us all the way to the top. |
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