Quote Originally Posted by J R Hartley View Post
Lincoln

It’s got nearly as many people living there than a small city like Derby.

Lifeblood of the game my arse. It’s people from towns like Merthyr who support their local team when they are in non league / 7th tier and 2 championship clubs within 30 minutes either way that deserve more credit than your Mansfield’s
and Lincoln’s of this world.
And plenty of those Merthyr supporters will be giving their spare time and hard earned in order to support the club. Sludge talks about lower professional league fans like they're victims, like they watch teams like Rochdale out of a sense of duty, akin to putting out your elderly neighbours rubbish every Tuesday evening, how patronising, it's nothing like that. They support their clubs because they want to, and they get as much enjoyment out of watching their team beat Morecombe as a liverpool fan does out of beating Manchester United.