Excellent post, sir. Excellent.
I haven't discussed football with any rag fan for a long, long time now, and I have no intention of changing that in the foreseeable future. They have joined the dippers and become social pariahs in my mind, collectively persona-non-grata.
I've got Arsenal fans, Spurs fans, and a couple of Brighton season ticket holders living near me that I talk to periodically: decent people, genuine fans who know their stuff - particularly about their own clubs.
They never give me stick about 'oil-money,' or Arabs, or anything that might cause offence. To a man they've said the same thing regarding our takeover: "Wish it had been us."
The contrast with the plastic rags I see now again is amazing. They've never been to the swamp, never actually seen the players in real life, just Sly/MotD etc. They know nothing about the rags' history prior to the Pisscan's arrival, they had never heard about the dodgy meat, or the looking-under-toilet-doors thing. One of them admitted he'd never even heard of Gordon McQueen - and this man is in his early 60's. You don't expect all supporters to know everything about their chosen club, but you'd think they would have at least a working knowledge of the clubs' history and some of their star players' names.
I no longer have the patience to talk football with these people. It's utterly futile.
