Friday Freebie: What Do We Know

It all goes on in every club

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The one consistent about a football club are its supporters. We’re here through thick and thin, through the good times and the bad ones as well. The volunteers can last a lifetime too, invariably chairmen, board members, managers and players move on and change ever so quickly.

More than ever now results don’t give you long in the hot seat. It’s always been the correct measure but managers were given time to turn things around. In today’s world there is no time given to build foundations and move forward; you must win yesterday.

Now, that isn’t the case in every situation, a bad run of form that never looks likely to turn around, there isn’t any other option than to try something else.

We also never know precisely what goes on behind closed doors of a football club. Yes there are always some people in the know, but many looking from the outside in see a completely different story.

We don’t know the ins and out of budget cuts, personal situations, club situations and much more. We guess, we speculate, we sometimes get it right.

I believe we’ve seen far more of the above paragraph happening this season that ever before, plenty of departures with their club well placed in the table and a few people head scratching along the way.

Football shouldn’t surprise you any more, it’s not just in non-league where it happens. Social media of course ramps up everything by a notch or two every time you see something posted.

Speculation is easier to spread, no waiting for the Friday evening down the pub and then Saturday afternoon to spread the word around everyone else. No one can leave a club these days without a rumour or two spread round the socials be that a player or a member of the management team, but truth be told there is 99% of the time a second destination ready and waiting.

But without some of the drama going on, what else would we fill our days with? That does seem to follow some clubs though more than others, supporters pleading for ‘one normal day’.

Quiet times are lovely, peaceful and more a sign things are settled within your football club, they just don’t last long enough! So, the next time all hell breaks loose within the doors of your club remember it doesn’t last forever and the good times might just be around the corner, but don’t take my word for it though……