There are economic textbooks out there about the theory of managed decline. I'll give you a shortcut. Watch our home game vs Liverpool in 2020 and our home game vs Liverpool in 2024.
We lost them both 2-1. But it's night and day. Squad, approach, dugout, the lot.
We weren't even bad today. We played some good stuff. But we don't make anything of a slow start from high profile oppositon. Then we can't defend a basic cross, and the keeper makes a rick. We get handed a gift of a goal then immediately hand one back (off an experienced player who should know better). We then don't have any answers.
We absolutely stink of relegation. It's West Ham 2002/03 or Leicester 2022/23 all over again. Where you look at 4-5 seriously good players and think "how the fuck did they go down"? Well because they weren't organised, they kept no clean sheets, they never learned, they never changed and eventually it was too late.
Gary Neville talks of our lack of atmosphere, that's because the club has alientated thousands of people who've been going for decades. For no reason as well. There's no heart there, there's no soul. Did I miss going today, no I didn't, not really. And if you're losing me, you're losing all but the most deluded and deranged.
We have issues literally everywhere and there is no easy fix. So you reap what you sow, Jeff Shi. You're a cunt and you caused this.
