It used to be the worst in lonely planet. Things must be improving On 27/09/2013 12:07 PM, "Paul Crowe" <pcr...@contechengineering.com> wrote:
> 7th worst City in the World!! Where have these survey people been in the > world?**** > > ** ** > > I could name 7 worse Cities in Bangladesh alone. India, China, PNG and > even the Philippines have far worse places than Wolverhampton.**** > > ** ** > > My two worst would be Dhaka and Tianjin – dreadful places to live in. I > think both of these cities have c*** football teams as well!!**** > > ** ** > > **** > > *From:* nswolves@googlegroups.com [mailto:nswolves@googlegroups.com] *On > Behalf Of *LEESE Matthew > *Sent:* Friday, 27 September 2013 10:50 AM > *To:* nswolves@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* [NSWolves: 8601] Sabotage Times**** > > ** ** > > *Wolves: We're Football's Worst Fans But It's Not Our Fault - Sabotage > Times* > > P 26 September 2013U Pete Cashmore**** > > ** ** > > Who are the worst fans in the country? If we are to measure “badness” in > terms of having a reputation for enjoying a dust-up with rival fans, then > most fingers would point at Millwall. And if it instead denotes a lack of > geographical proximity to a team’s given region, or the suggestion that the > fans have settled on a team in the same unimaginative way that one settles > on the music of > *Coldplay*<http://sabotagetimes.com/music/coldplays-mylo-xyloto-catchier-than-cholera/>and > the meals of Pizza Express, then you’d argue in favour of Manchester > United.**** > > However, many people would argue that fans of my team, Wolverhampton > Wanderers, are, in terms of constant moaning and delusions of grandeur, > among the very very worst in football. What’s odd is that our fans don’t > seem to recognise just how much the rest of football dislikes us. If you > look at any end-of-season summary of recent seasons in *The > Observer*<http://sabotagetimes.com/camouflage/the-observers-book-of-association-football/>, > where a fan of each team nominates his best and worst players, games and > fans, Wolves tend to feature heavily in the “worst fans” nominations. And > yet the opprobrium never seems to register. It’s not water off a duck’s > back, it’s a duck not even recognising that it is actually wet.**** > > The Wolves support is that peculiar mixture of living off past glories, > nursing absurd delusions as to where we ought to be in the football > hierarchy (this wasn’t helped a couple of seasons back when the ownership > started letting off absurd honkings about pushing on for Europe, in the > season of the first of our record-breaking successive relegations) and > complaining about every signing, dropped point, conceded goal and fluffy > feelgood PR blather in online forums – there are Wolves forums users who > would be able to find a downside if Lionel Messi took a 100% pay cut to > turn out in the Old Gold. In these terms, we are perhaps second only to > Newcastle United, but you at least get the impression that, although the > Toon Army are guilty of all of the above, they would at least show you a > good time afterwards. In Wolverhampton, we’d just take you to the > Newhampton pub for a meat pie and a moan. Even if we won.**** > > *Where Did It All Go Wrong For > Wolves?<http://sabotagetimes.com/football/where-did-it-all-go-wrong-for-wolves> > * > > Factor in an unseemly obsession with how *West Bromwich > Albion*<http://sabotagetimes.com/football/west-brom-if-we-keep-trying-to-accommodate-anelka-well-go-down>are > doing at any given time, and the Wolves fan becomes a bit of a tragic > breed. And we’re incredibly easy to wind up too. I remember one game > against Blackburn where one of the away fans, a tubby shirtless teenager > who I tracked down via the gift of the interweb and now know to be James > O’Connor (hi Jim!), was goading the Wolves fans something awful, simply via > the medium of mime. He managed to enrage one man to a high froth simply by > pointing at him, doing a “limp wrist” gesture and mouthing the words “Are > you gay?” a few times. The man got so livid that he eventually picked up > his son, who would have been about five years old, held the terrified > toddler above his head, and roared, “How can I be a woofter? I’ve got us a > f*****’ babby!” Priceless.**** > > But I come here not to bury myself and my brethren for being hopeless and > miserable and obsessed with the glories of a very distant past. I come to > plead for understanding and indulgence. Things are not good at Wolves right > now, and I mean that in reference to both the club and the city. Obviously, > the team itself has been subjected to some spectacular top-down > mismanagement, such that some of the candidates who were interviewed after > the dismissal of Mick McCarthy had decided to not take up the vacant post > in the time it took to stroll to their car after the interview ended. And > the Molineux ground has become a massive white elephant in a city that > simply can’t afford it, boasting a fancy luxury restaurant which apparently > now only opens once a week due to a lack of people minted enough to dine in > it, and ticket prices out of sync with the quality and level of football on > show. Basically, the fans are still being expected to pay, in part, for the > spectacular failings of the club and those who run it, and this is in a > city with the worst unemployment levels and the highest percentage of > out-of-use commercial premises in the UK. Wolves is basically the poster > city for the recession. So yeah, we do bloody moan, but we have good reason > to. We do look back with rose-tinted spectacles, because the present is > pretty flaming grim. That just leaves the delusion and the obsession with > West Brom, but I suspect no amount of therapy will rid us of either of > those.**** > > In a recent *Lonely Planet > Guide*<http://sabotagetimes.com/travel/the-very-lonely-planet-guide-bracknell/>, > Wolverhampton was voted the 7th worst city in the entire world. So if we > are the country’s worst fans – and as I say, we’re right up there – then > maybe we’re just products of our environment. And this maybe explains why > we simply don’t notice when scorn is being heaped on us by fans of other > clubs. In terrible times, a thick hide is a necessity.**** > > Having said all this… We did come up with the nickname “Sylvan > Elikes-Cake” for Sylvan Ebanks-Blake. So we can’t be all bad.**** > > [image: Logo]**** > > Before printing, please consider the environment**** > > IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment to it are intended only > to be read or used by the named addressee. 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