Let them, while they rip their identity away from themselves so even the die hard City fan doesn't know them anymore, and can let alone pay to go an watch them they will rely on the plastic tv 'customers' while playing in a soulless half full stadium. There is reason why the amateur leagues are increasing in attendances, people like paying a tenner to get in, eat a pie and feel part of something that becomes ingrained in their lives, knowing the tea lady's name and half the stand you're stood in.

Football up to 20yrs ago was brilliant, its moving towards soulless drivel won by those with most. The quality of football has gone, replaced by athletes, where are the old craftsmen in the game? Where are the Bergkamps, Zidane's, Gazza's, Van Bastens, Klinsmann's and all the others we all could mention. Football becomes more vile year on year.

Rant over

It is a shame Ex, I know where youre coming from. the mind goes back to the games at Millmoor when games were played in the pouring rain and mud, when we went down to clear snow off the pitch so a game could go ahead and the in the evening sit and have a pint with Dave Gwyther in the Bull, scalding hot bovril and insipid tea. Not much of a club you might say. but it was our club with an affinity with the players, a sport not a multi million pound business.

Would I go back to those days? No, we can never go back to what was, we and things move on, but we have lost a great deal of the essence and identity from the game which I feel is sadly missing in most sports these days