I know it’s not quite the same thing, but I said to a few people after we won the league in 19/20 that I may as well stop watching football because it’ll never get that good, ever again. I felt like I would just become a bit disengaged knowing that it was never going to be quite the same.
And yet here we are six years later and I’m still in this forum, checking every few hours to see if there’s any update, and delusionally optimistic that will batter all the opposition throughout the next season.
I think no matter who the owners are and how evil they may be, there’s a large part of me disengages from that because quite simply I love the club and I can’t get that out of my system no matter what else goes on. Bezos can sit in the boardroom for all I care, I wish that he wouldn’t, but if he does, he’ll be out of sight out of mind for the most part because what will really matter is that we win next Saturday.
None of us would have been smiling in that team last season. And I think from that point of view comparisons with Bobby are unfair because very very few players in the whole history of football in my lifetime have played with the same joy that he did.