The way this club has been handled over the years I think has reached a weird point especially since yesterday. I’ve absolutely fallen out of love a bit here. I have never felt such a disconnect from the club in as long as I can remember.
I can deal with Wolves being a sloppy performance thats just football sometimes but I never thought I would have such strong negative emotions about the management of the club that it would impact my desire to watch and enjoy the games.
Think a lot of us are at this point where the overall decisions being made at senior level are becoming too concerning to ignore.
A former UWS/Red Issue writer once said something along the lines of: "anyone that knows anything about football knows that, for most of the time, football isn't really about football."
It took me a long time to figure out what that really meant. In the end I realised, it's not really just about football is it? I mean, we're all emotionally attached to the end result of 11 blokes kicking a ball around.
Football is about community. It's about the club and its players representing you (whether that be through locality, family ties or just sheer romance). The whole thing is absurd when you think about it but that's what makes it great.
I get a massive sense of pride when Rashford scores for us. He grew up on a housing estate similar to me and it's like he genuinely represents me. I got a massive sense of pride as well when I heard that when Evra signed for us and spent hours walking around the ground taking in the history. You don't have to be born here...
The negativity around the club can often be separate to what happens on the pitch. It's why I can justify not going to the ground and funding the Glazers but still supporting the team as, for the most part, the team still represents me.
If the two things I mention above happen, I will stop feeling like this is a club that I can actively support in the same way.
Maybe I'm old fashioned even though I'm only in my 30s. Who knows.