Your post has made me think about whether I'd prefer to see them cease to exist or be second best for a decent while longer but accepting that at some point in the future they'll possibly be better than us.
There's so many things like their knobhead fans, the entitlement, the banner, the gobbling media, what an unpleasant individual the gpc has been, the cynical use of a tragedy to promote their brand, the poisoning of school kids etc it goes on and on and partially makes me feel i'd be happy to see them consigned to history forever.
But then I think about the fact that being that bitter towards them makes me little better than they are. The irony has always been that though we are Berties we've never truly been as bitter and small minded as they have. Through our travails we stuck together and had a laugh but much more often at our own expense rather than others. Meanwhile they had vast amounts of success and still couldn't help themselves being twats. That now their supposed fall from grace which has them all twisting in the wind, is actually nothing more than them becoming a mediocre badly managed mid table premier league team (a position millions of fans would love) tells you everything about how lost and pathetic they are.
So my thinking is pretty much what 'would they do?' and then do the opposite. Given I'm pretty sure the majority of them would have been happy to see us go under, my view is I don't want or need to be as sad as them. Let them continue their feeble existence that makes a mockery of what it really means to be a football fan (or even a club) because even if one day that means they're 'better' than us again, then so be it they'll still be rags and clueless about what football really means and I'll still be a blue and by definition will have been dealt the better hand in life.
(awaits first reply of RAG!!!!) :-)
