But itâs not just first team players. How many players that were around then (May not have played for the first team) and have emerged under the likes of Campbell and MM before PB even stared.
Who were the three? Akinola, ANG & Ferguson?
Confidence is massive in football. As you say the fans will have been effected, but itâs the back room staff and the behind the scenes people you donât tend to think about. Anyone connected to the Club has been scarred by goings on over the last 3 years. Iâve never felt as disconnected from the club than over the last three years. Itâs not just the losing, every club loses matches, it was the apathy, the players, everything.
Iâve organised two charity football matches involving ex-Southend United players. The likes of Maher, Barret, Gower, Grant, Francis, Dudfield, Abbey, Rawle, Jupp, Che Wilson, David Lee, Roget, Mark Bentley, Peter Taylor, Ian Benjamin and others have been involved in. One was the week before the Wycombe play off final, and John White & Dan Bentley came down to watch. Over the past three years, I wouldnât want anybody associated with the club to have appeared, and I donât think they would. We had an unlikeable group of players, people that didnât give a toss about the club, people that didnât want to be here and it showed in their appearances. JW would be one exception, and maybe one or two others. But if I organised another one, how many people would like to watch the list Iâve given, and how many would like to see the likes of Dieng, Kieran, Mantom et all?