Turning your back is deemed treachery but the last frayed cords of connection with the club have snapped and this Watford team make me feel nothing
In short, researchers have been producing wildly contrasting and evidentially suspicious figures on this subject for decades, varying so much that if I started taking decisions at birth some believe I will by now have made about 479,000, and others more like 710,000,000. Either way, I’ve certainly had enough practice to find them less painful than I sometimes do.
The decision in question: should I give up my season ticket? And then the issues arising from it: what does it say about me that I’m even considering it? What kind of supporter am I? What kind of person? There’s no need to drag out the suspense, for the decision has been made. For only the second time in my adult life I could feasibly hold a season ticket atnext year but have chosen not to. The last time it happened they promptly won their division, so this may be just the boost the club needs. Either way this is not the end, but I think it would benefit us both if we spent some time apart..
Watford fans have become totally disconnected with their team after a shambolic season following last year’s relegation.One voice never heard in this cacophony is that of the owner, Gino Pozzo, who has ignored English journalists for a decade and recently deigned to commit to a public meeting with a group of supporters for the first time ever, albeit at an unspecified future date and in an unknown format.
Never have I experienced such a disconnect between a team and their fanbase. A year ago I watched a group with which I felt no real affinityfrom the Premier League and hoped that in the relative obscurity of the Championship our relationship might be redefined and I would somehow come to see in it a reflection of myself. This year they have been lazy and underachieving and the last frayed cords of connection have snapped. We have come, in the end, to treat each other with total disdain.
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