Today doesnt feel as bad as i expected, probably because i have been expecting it. Said to my son its done now, not going to cry over the milk being spilt but look forward to next season and hope we can challenge for promotion.
The scary thing is Ron Martin wouldn't know a decent football manager if one headbutted him in the face (if only!). Thanks for tainting my memories of Lincoln, Manchester United, Wycombe.
Summed it up nicely.As I've said elsewhere, I'm an Orient fan on the board of our Supporters' Trust, and a Southend resident for over 40 years.
I know what you're going through. I saw my club go from the brink of the Championship to non-league in 3 years, through the most cack-handed and incompetent ownership possible ever in English professional football. I have every sympathy and empathy for what you're all feeling tonight.
From the outside, this has been coming for years. Your owner has been robbing Peter to pay Paul, Paul to pay Fred and Fred to pay Peter, in the hope that a new stadium would pay them all. Sooner or later, the debts were going to lead to an inability to recruit a League team, and last summer was that time. Anyone pointing fingers at previous managers and players for relegation to the National League is, in my honest opinion, making the same mistake some O's fans made in standing up for Becchetti even as we descended into farce and non-payment of staff. The rot starts from the top.
Whatever anger and sadness you feel tonight, bottle it and direct it at the owner at the first available opportunity. You haven't had a well-run football club for a long time.
Well I don't think so.Easy fella, that's way out of line.
Would you still turn up though after that comment or hide?
Would you still turn up though after that comment or hide?
And this is why we don’t want a Phoenix club and retain SUFCPlease don't let today taint those great memories - they are all part of our history and hopefully we will have more good ones in the future.
Agree to 'let's see what happens' but why not keep the snide comments out of it?Only time will tell if he gets us to a “sustainable” situation. Let’s see what happens.