The bitterness... (40 Viewers)

covcity4life · 2025-12-28T14:34:33+0000

Is it going for anyone else? Been thinking recently about just how bitter I have become due to supporting a team that had a pretty hellish time for around 20 years. I've been jealous and angry of others for so many things such as

that likes of Brighton and Brentford are prem clubs and we aren't

Leicester had opera singer title celebration

Hull had Brazilian geovanni scoring worldies in prem

Pro Evo didn't have cov as a team during glory years

Not being in match of the day

West ham won conference league

Wolves having the Portuguese national squad

No cov players on FPL

Everytime epl signs record breaking TV deal

soton celebrating promotion on a really sunny day after beating us on tv

Small prem teams beating europeon giants to players

Former players excelling elsewhere like Wilson and maddison

Forest and villa having European football again

They are just a few things I've been bitter or jealous about. There are lots more

But recently it's all going away. We have worked ourselves back up the football league and are now close to being a prem club and everything that comes with it. And I no longer care so much about others. And its nice to have less hate and more positivity!

Not sure if it's just me? Maybe it is just me but it's nice to enjoy football again!

procdoc · 2025-12-28T14:38:48+0000

covcity4life said:
Is it going for anyone else? Been thinking recently about just how bitter I have become due to supporting a team that had a pretty hellish time for around 20 years. I've been jealous and angry of others for so many things such as

that likes of Brighton and Brentford are prem clubs and we aren't

Leicester had opera singer title celebration

Hull had Brazilian geovanni scoring worldies in prem

Pro Evo didn't have cov as a team during glory years

Not being in match of the day

West ham won conference league

Wolves having the Portuguese national squad

No cov players on FPL

Everytime epl signs record breaking TV deal

soton celebrating promotion on a really sunny day after beating us on tv

Small prem teams beating europeon giants to players

Former players excelling elsewhere like Wilson and maddison

Forest and villa having European football again

They are just a few things I've been bitter or jealous about. There are lots more

But recently it's all going away. We have worked ourselves back up the football league and are now close to being a prem club and everything that comes with it. And I no longer care so much about others. And its nice to have less hate and more positivity!

Not sure if it's just me? Maybe it is just me but it's nice to enjoy football again!

Seeing Bournemouth being successful makes my piss boil. Ipswich getting back to back promotions annoyed me too. There are other things such as Fabrizio Romano never putting out an ‘Here we go!’ Tweet about any of our signings lol

covcity4life · 2025-12-28T14:39:29+0000

procdoc said:
Seeing Bournemouth being successful makes my piss boil. Ipswich getting back to back promotions annoyed me too. There are other things such as Fabrizio Romano never putting out an ‘Here we go!’ Tweet about any of our signings lol

Love it. Glad I'm not only one who thinks like this

hill83 · 2025-12-28T14:41:17+0000

I can’t take any of it seriously at the moment. Doesn’t feel real.

hill83 · 2025-12-28T14:43:30+0000

It’s been nothing but wins since I started taking my son to games. He had the cheek to say he’s not going to Wembley for the semi after the heartbreak of the playoff final.

“I’ll go next year” Doesn’t know he’s born.

fatso · 2025-12-28T14:43:52+0000

I was pissed off when fucking Luton beat us to get promotion, I mean that tin pot shit hole of a club belong in L1 not the PL.

......Well karma being what it is

procdoc · 2025-12-28T14:52:06+0000

fatso said:
I was pissed off when fucking Luton beat us to get promotion, I mean that tin pot shit hole of a club belong in L1 not the PL.

......Well karma being what it is

What made it worse is that they didn’t even bother trying to stay up

fatso · 2025-12-28T14:54:19+0000

procdoc said:
What made it worse is that they didn’t even bother trying to stay up

I think they settled for banking the cash for their new stadium.

I bet they never counted on 2 successive relegation though

hill83 · 2025-12-28T14:54:34+0000

procdoc said:
What made it worse is that they didn’t even bother trying to stay up

I thought they gave it a decent go, minus actually spending money on players which is what I assume you mean.

olderskyblue · 2025-12-28T14:55:56+0000

You’ll miss this winning feeling if we go up, you”ll be pining for the fjords (championship) in no time

procdoc · 2025-12-28T14:59:29+0000

olderskyblue said:
You’ll miss this winning feeling if we go up, you”ll be pining for the fjords (championship) in no time

Pining for the championship after losing 1-0 at home to Sean Dyche’s Nottingham Forest

procdoc · 2025-12-28T15:01:03+0000

hill83 said:
I thought they gave it a decent go, minus actually spending money on players which is what I assume you mean.

I mean they made some games difficult at the garden shed they call a stadium but for me they didn’t really attempt to stay up, just relied on turgid route one football from a bunch of lower championship/league one cloggers

clint van damme · 2025-12-28T15:52:37+0000

procdoc said:
What made it worse is that they didn’t even bother trying to stay up

I'm convinced that in 20 years time their support will laud the decision they made to put the money to the stadium

SeaSeeEffCee · 2025-12-28T15:57:02+0000

I’ve been incredibly bitter about it all for years to be honest. Watching us miss out on the big Premier League payday while teams like Brentford, Bournemouth, Brighton, Ipswich, Luton etc. have all got up there was shite. My first game was in our first season back in the Champ, seeing us finally play in the Premier League would be very special.

robbiethemole · 2025-12-28T16:02:44+0000

Funny how when we dropped, the ITV fiasco happened and we never got in on it, but now when we get back. the money is unbelievable!!!!
Approx £160 m for promotion, a share of TV and advertising rights, worth c £6.9 BILLION this year and this years bottom relegated team gets £120m plus parachute payments!!!!

If we were in the bottom 3 that's still loads of money, but if we survived it goes up pro rata. Enough to set us up for years and get decent players to become a yo-yo club.

bigfatronssba · 2025-12-28T16:09:08+0000

procdoc said:
Seeing Bournemouth being successful makes my piss boil. Ipswich getting back to back promotions annoyed me too. There are other things such as Fabrizio Romano never putting out an ‘Here we go!’ Tweet about any of our signings lol

If we’re up there next year Bournemouth will annoy me. A league 2 club that in recent years has outspent massive Championship clubs

Shannerz · 2025-12-28T16:11:40+0000

covcity4life said:
Is it going for anyone else? Been thinking recently about just how bitter I have become due to supporting a team that had a pretty hellish time for around 20 years. I've been jealous and angry of others for so many things such as

that likes of Brighton and Brentford are prem clubs and we aren't

Leicester had opera singer title celebration

Hull had Brazilian geovanni scoring worldies in prem

Pro Evo didn't have cov as a team during glory years

Not being in match of the day

West ham won conference league

Wolves having the Portuguese national squad

No cov players on FPL

Everytime epl signs record breaking TV deal

soton celebrating promotion on a really sunny day after beating us on tv

Small prem teams beating europeon giants to players

Former players excelling elsewhere like Wilson and maddison

Forest and villa having European football again

They are just a few things I've been bitter or jealous about. There are lots more

But recently it's all going away. We have worked ourselves back up the football league and are now close to being a prem club and everything that comes with it. And I no longer care so much about others. And its nice to have less hate and more positivity!

Not sure if it's just me? Maybe it is just me but it's nice to enjoy football again!

Brighton and Brentford earnt their status; I'm always happy to see well run clubs punch above their weight.

Bournemouth is a bit galling, as they're a small club made fat with financial doping. Basically Wrexham of the 2010s, but without the Hollywood angle. That's nothing to do with our status, though. It would still have happened even if we hadn't have been withering away due to constant mismanagement.

Whilst it would have been better to be almost anyone else, Leicester's title was a brilliant sporting story. Yeah, they were financially doped and cheated their way out of the Championship, but Kante and Mahrez are two of the best signings of the Premier era, and they still had no right to win the thing. You'd also have to have quite a hard heart not to be happy for Claudio Ranieri, one of football's good guys.

So no, I wasn't bitter about anyone else, just with how we were being destroyed.

But *if* we go up this year, from where we came from and the direction the club was heading prior to Mark Robins' appointment, and what we had to contend with for most of his spell, we'll have written a sporting story to match any.

bigfatronssba · 2025-12-28T16:13:02+0000

Assuming we pull it off, what will be great is knowing we did it without some billionaire bankrolling us. We did it with hard work and intelligence. That makes it all the more special.

It also makes me feel that this is our natural position, and that as a club we aren’t out of place in the premier league. Some seem to suggest we fluked 34 years. Well we’re nearly back there now simply with the club being run on an even keel

LastChance · 2025-12-28T16:13:11+0000

fatso said:
I was pissed off when fucking Luton beat us to get promotion, I mean that tin pot shit hole of a club belong in L1 not the PL.

......Well karma being what it is

It was heartbreaking at the time, but I can't help thinking maybe we're better off now than we would have been if we'd gone up with MR in charge. With Frank at the helm I feel a lot more confident that we can make a go of it in the Prem. DK has made us into a viable club being run properly, that's what Bournemouth and Brentford have done and now they're established Premier League clubs. But, I will still feel resentful that they're 2 of the richest clubs in the world even if/when we do get promoted

clint van damme · 2025-12-28T16:15:32+0000

Shannerz said:
You'd also have to have quite a hard heart not to be happy for Claudio Ranieri, one of football's good guys.

Fuck that, I wish he'd failed miserably.

bigfatronssba · 2025-12-28T16:19:16+0000

LastChance said:
It was heartbreaking at the time, but I can't help thinking maybe we're better off now than we would have been if we'd gone up with MR in charge. With Frank at the helm I feel a lot more confident that we can make a go of it in the Prem. DK has made us into a viable club being run properly, that's what Bournemouth and Brentford have done and now they're established Premier League clubs. But, I will still feel resentful that they're 2 of the richest clubs in the world even if/when we do get promoted

It’s speculation as to what the team would’ve been if we had gone up in 2023. However, one thing is certain, the club itself definitely wasn’t ready to be a premier league team then.

Whereas now, we’re as ready as we’ll ever be I think

bigfatronssba · 2025-12-28T16:21:04+0000

Bournemouth and Brentford won’t maintain it anyway.
Remember Wigan? Clubs always fall back to their natural level in the end

wingy · 2025-12-28T16:22:27+0000

covcity4life said:
Is it going for anyone else? Been thinking recently about just how bitter I have become due to supporting a team that had a pretty hellish time for around 20 years. I've been jealous and angry of others for so many things such as

that likes of Brighton and Brentford are prem clubs and we aren't

Leicester had opera singer title celebration

Hull had Brazilian geovanni scoring worldies in prem

Pro Evo didn't have cov as a team during glory years

Not being in match of the day

West ham won conference league

Wolves having the Portuguese national squad

No cov players on FPL

Everytime epl signs record breaking TV deal

soton celebrating promotion on a really sunny day after beating us on tv

Small prem teams beating europeon giants to players

Former players excelling elsewhere like Wilson and maddison

Forest and villa having European football again

They are just a few things I've been bitter or jealous about. There are lots more

But recently it's all going away. We have worked ourselves back up the football league and are now close to being a prem club and everything that comes with it. And I no longer care so much about others. And its nice to have less hate and more positivity!

Not sure if it's just me? Maybe it is just me but it's nice to enjoy football again!

The absence of us on Sky is quite telling, we're getting there to be shot at IMO,, maybe it will come in a month or two or they will miss the boat!
Can't believe it, someone else are hogging all the bandwidth, show us some respect!
FFS!

Lamps · 2025-12-28T16:25:24+0000

hill83 said:
I can’t take any of it seriously at the moment. Doesn’t feel real.

Did you check the pronouns?

wingy · 2025-12-28T16:25:41+0000

robbiethemole said:
Funny how when we dropped, the ITV fiasco happened and we never got in on it, but now when we get back. the money is unbelievable!!!!
Approx £160 m for promotion, a share of TV and advertising rights, worth c £6.9 BILLION this year and this years bottom relegated team gets £120m plus parachute payments!!!!

If we were in the bottom 3 that's still loads of money, but if we survived it goes up pro rata. Enough to set us up for years and get decent players to become a yo-yo club.

It is ATM but I still wonder about it, it's a Billionaires game now,soon to be trillionaires!

covcity4life · 2025-12-28T16:26:34+0000

wingy said:
The absence of us on Sky is quite telling, we're getting there to be shot at IMO,, maybe it will come in a month or two or they will miss the boat!
Can't believe it, someone else are hogging all the bandwidth, show us some respect!
FFS!

What you mean? Were on sky alot and media talk about us all the time right now

Another thing im not bitter about anymore!

wingy · 2025-12-28T16:32:08+0000

covcity4life said:
What you mean? Were on sky alot and media talk about us all the time right now

Another thing im not bitter about anymore!

I thought your OP was saying the opposite tbf,lost in translation, but no not really they have been disespecting us, but that's okay, somebody should have been doing a special on us this season,wall to wall,feels like self inflicted goal really but I'm okay with it?

Tommo1993 · 2025-12-28T16:37:03+0000

I’m more bitter now over one thing. Think this is gonna be an essay!

As a kid, especially all through Primary School, I was one of very very few Cov fans. The few years when the school had no uniform, you’d see loads of Man Utd shirts in particular as well as all the other cliché clubs. It sometimes felt the closest thing I had in common football-wise was my teacher in year 5/6 who was a big Nottm Forest fan - as at that time they were another obscure-ish second tier team. In secondary there were obviously more of us as there’s more pupils, but the percentage was still tragically low.

Extended family-wise, as we started dwindling and dropping down the leagues, relatives started turning attention to Chelsea. I know relatives through marriage stopped going when we were relegated from the Championship and eventually turned their attention to wasps.

I saw the Chelsea supporting relatives at Southampton the other week. And a lot of those kids who wouldn’t have batted an eye at CCFC back then are all on the wagon. That I’m bitter about. I can never feel like they deserve the good times with this club.

TomRad85 · 2025-12-28T16:41:59+0000

Tommo1993 said:
I’m more bitter now over one thing. Think this is gonna be an essay!

As a kid, especially all through Primary School, I was one of very very few Cov fans. The few years when the school had no uniform, you’d see loads of Man Utd shirts in particular as well as all the other cliché clubs. It sometimes felt the closest thing I had in common football-wise was my teacher in year 5/6 who was a big Nottm Forest fan - as at that time they were another obscure-ish second tier team. In secondary there were obviously more of us as there’s more pupils, but the percentage was still tragically low.

Extended family-wise, as we started dwindling and dropping down the leagues, relatives started turning attention to Chelsea. I know relatives through marriage stopped going when we were relegated from the Championship and eventually turned their attention to wasps.

I saw the Chelsea supporting relatives at Southampton the other week. And a lot of those kids who wouldn’t have batted an eye at CCFC back then are all on the wagon. That I’m bitter about. I can never feel like they deserve the good times with this club.

Every club our size needs fans like that to fill stadiums unfortunately. It's not a bad thing tbh but as someone who could never turn away from my club no matter how shit, I know what you mean.

clint van damme · 2025-12-28T16:44:18+0000

Tommo1993 said:
I’m more bitter now over one thing. Think this is gonna be an essay!

As a kid, especially all through Primary School, I was one of very very few Cov fans. The few years when the school had no uniform, you’d see loads of Man Utd shirts in particular as well as all the other cliché clubs. It sometimes felt the closest thing I had in common football-wise was my teacher in year 5/6 who was a big Nottm Forest fan - as at that time they were another obscure-ish second tier team. In secondary there were obviously more of us as there’s more pupils, but the percentage was still tragically low.

Extended family-wise, as we started dwindling and dropping down the leagues, relatives started turning attention to Chelsea. I know relatives through marriage stopped going when we were relegated from the Championship and eventually turned their attention to wasps.

I saw the Chelsea supporting relatives at Southampton the other week. And a lot of those kids who wouldn’t have batted an eye at CCFC back then are all on the wagon. That I’m bitter about. I can never feel like they deserve the good times with this club.

That's what success brings, you can't have one without the other.
The alternative is to still be rattling round a 2/3rds empty stadium wearing our shitness like a badge of honour. I prefer things how they are now.

Though if it still rankles, tripping them up as they go down the stairwell are using a lit fag to burn a hole in the back of their jacket can be very cathartic.

Tommo1993 · 2025-12-28T16:47:03+0000

TomRad85 said:
Every club our size needs fans like that to fill stadiums unfortunately. It's not a bad thing tbh but as someone who could never turn away from my club no matter how shit, I know what you mean.

clint van damme said:
That's what success brings, you can't have one without the other.
The alternative is to still be rattling round a 2/3rds empty stadium wearing our shitness like a badge of honour. I prefer things how they are now.

Though if it still rankles, tripping them up as they go down the stairwell are using a lit fag to burn a hole in the back of their jacket can be very cathartic.

It’s when you see them online or even in person acting like they’ve been here all along, talking down to others who actually have. At those minging L1/L2 away days, sort of laughing about how bad things were in general.

clint van damme · 2025-12-28T16:48:23+0000

Tommo1993 said:
It’s when you see them online or even in person acting like they’ve been here all along, talking down to others who actually have.

Which posters off here are you on about?!

wingy · 2025-12-28T16:50:01+0000

clint van damme said:
That's what success brings, you can't have one without the other.
The alternative is to still be rattling round a 2/3rds empty stadium wearing our shitness like a badge of honour. I prefer things how they are now.

Though if it still rankles, tripping them up as they go down the stairwell are using a lit fag to burn a hole in the back of their jacket can be very cathartic.

You shouldn't be smoking!

clint van damme · 2025-12-28T16:50:32+0000

wingy said:
You shouldn't be smoking!

I'm not, just burning things!

blunted · 2025-12-28T16:52:41+0000

Think living for now is more important. OK, I get angry at supporters dissing us on social media now. Wrexham and Ipswich beating us when we had weakened teams crowing about how awesome they are. See incoming if we happened to lose at Birmingham.
Why be upset with Brentford, Crystal Palace or Brighton, teams that are very well run.
There is something really empowering doing what we are at the moment with a mid-table Championship budget.
We have had the best 9 years ever so far. Onwards and upwards.

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