It's only four games into the season and I'm already fed up.
Not with the team, the manager, or, heaven help me, the board. But with the fans.
In the first three games our young side played some dazzling football and were unlucky to lose two of those games. Yesterday we played less well but were unlucky to be losing at half-time and could easily have been two or three goals to the good. But this time the so-called fans started to boo the misplaced pass as early as midway through the first half.
I am heartily sick of people who want to exact their desire for revenge against the Chairman (for who knows what) against the young players in the new look Saints team.
Let me just remind these petulant boo boys (and I bet they're mostly blokes) of just one thing...
The team Matt Busby had built from the club's successful youth policy seemed destined to dominate football for many years. Such was the power of the Babes that they seemed invincible. The average age of the side which won the Championship in 1955-56 was just 22, the youngest ever to achieve such a feat. A year when they were Champions again, nothing, it seemed, would prevent the young braves of Manchester United from reigning for the next decade.
