The biggest, maybe the saddest, concern...

Isn't the fact that we lost to a promotion rival, that we were limited in our creativity and weak in attack, or even that we've now lost any sort of home advantage (the one thing we could always rely on, going back to 70s and 80s) but that it no longer ruins my mood for the rest of the weekend and the early part of the week.

Moreover, at the start of play, being 7th and just 3pts off the play-offs against a 'good' side with whom we have a little bit of history didn't really get the heart racing at all.

Is this a sense of entitlement? Being ground down by two EPL capitulations? Just modern football? Or maybe realising that the 2018-2021 years where we somehow managed to capture lightning in a bottle was just a lucky anomaly. A period where everything just fell into place and we were lucky enough to ride the wave?

This feels like the end of a brief but very exciting and engaging era. Farke, Pukki, Emi, Skipp, etc. just came together at the right time, under the right conditions and it all just worked... the magic was just serendipity and now we've seen behind the wizard's cloak and there is no fairy dust... or at least none left.

This is the closet I've felt to the wilderness years in the Championship which culminated in the Roeder years. Can this be some sort of post-pandemic hangover? When we couldn't go and join in all the fun and hoopla, we probably all craved a return, but since it's sort of all been a bit flat.

Obviously the last year, for me, has contained personal family tragedy and maybe that has put football into perspective. Maybe it's just me and my own view on the relative importance of 11 blokes kicking a ball around once or twice a week? That said, I've had similar periods in the past when both my parents died and I got divorced from the first Mrs WY (late 90s), and I took solace in football and City. That was a piss poor period too!!

Anyway, just some late night musings after being on the whisky 🥃 🥴

Somehow we're still in the hunt for a play-off spot but I'm not sure I've got the stomach for the potential heart break...

Night all, On The Ball City 💛💚

Posted By: Worthing Yellow, Apr 2, 01:17:57