Being put back into place

Whilst perusing through the mailbox on football365.com this fine evening, I found an interesting little post from a disgruntled Southampton fan. It seems an Arsenal fan had written a post the previous day claiming that no other club were in a worse position than his beloved Gooners. Please, have a look:


Is Any Club In A Worse Position?

Okay, just to give an update on a team no-one cares about (apart from me and Mort Snort that is), which is Southampton. We're currently lying 19th in the Championship, four points above the relegation zone. In our yearly results up to July this year we have lost £4.6m. Our overdraft has risen to ridiculous levels, and our turnover has decreased from £21m to £13m. Attendances have dropped from an average of 22,00 to 15,000 due to splits in the fanbase, lack of home wins and most of all, utter laziness and inability to be proper football fans and back the club with money.

On top of this we have an unproven Dutch manager who has got a team with an average age of just under 21 years of age playing lovely flowing football, but with no end product. This has led to several of our players being potentially whipped away in January by the Premiership big boys, with Lallana off to Spurs (If he could shoot he'd be a world beater), Andrew Surman off to Stoke to join the Saints old boys, and Morgan Schneiderlin off to Arsenal (this boy is something special) where we will have to try and unearth the next superstar from our academy, who'll probably be like eight years old. Add to this the fact that allegedly Rupert Lowe is picking our team week in week out, the fact we need to get rid of Rudi Skacel, Stern John, Grzegorz Rasiak and Jason Euell off the books to give ourselves a chance of staving off administration, and you'll realise what a hole our club is in.

Is there anyone else whose clubs are in a worse position. From the sounds of things there is a team in London who are 4th in the Premiership with a few injuries, whose 60,000 paying fans are booing one of their players. Gosh. I wouldn't want to be them...

Simon Goddard, SFC


Perspective can be a right slap in the face sometimes.