Time is never on a footballer's side
Time is a bugger, with all it's wiggly nonsense, and now it is finally catching up with me! In a dew days I will be doing my second triathlon event, the sprint distance this time round. Giving it time to get the training right and patience with my trainer have been a staple of the training, something g a football fan is not know for!
This edition of Paella and Bovril came from Raith's home game against Falkirk that saw an early lead from Rovers and a late equalizer from Falkirk. Enjoy!
P.S Please support me in my triathlon. Check out my page.
To say that football fans are a fickle bunch is very much a understatement. Supporters, whether they be the fanatic that knows every inch of their clubs facts and figures or the one down the pub who vocalizes his disgust at the recent performance they can be happy one minute and seconds later threatening to never watch another game to milliseconds later naming their first born after the entire team, are as changeable as the Scottish weather.
With the new season, new championship, new chapter in Scottish football well under way and those involved just about getting used to the divisions' names, the cries from the volatile fans remain pretty much the same. Not even the "best team in the world" are immune to claims that they are just not living up to expectation. In the 5 friendlies that FC Barcelona played in they let in 6 goals and scored 19, not against top notch opposition, but still not a bad average. Were the fans happy, was the media, (Barcelona's biggest lover and critic) going to praise them or would they want more from their club? With a 100% record to start the season you would think that no fan could find fault but faults they will find, "Messi not playing to his full potential", "why have we not spent £85 million on a player", "we should have 8 instead of 7 past them", some fans just want it to be bigger and better than last time. We are only a few games into this season, and there is a long way to go and a good start to the season doesn't always mean a good end and with this new look Scottish game who knows how things will pan out for us fans. Will our season end in ecstatic happiness or dreadful discontent, what is better a solid start or a flourish at the finish?
Fans remember the good times and if it was really good and memorable the constant comparison to that time is inevitable. How many of us have counted the seconds until certain media types mention 1966? During a recent Raith Rovers Abroad broadcast the topic of strong start or fantastic finish briefly got a mention. Thoughts of course turned to 1994; cup win aside the talk was about the season's perfomance. Being a fantastic point in any fans memory the season is remembered as a great one. But was it the start or the finish that made it? In October after a defeat to rivals Dunfermline making Raith 6th in the table with 12 points, league matters were off to an ok start. Roll on to the traditional fixture-packed festive season, and Raith begin to string a decent set of results together. As a chat board member on RRA reminded us, in the 22 league and cup games that followed only 2 were lost, both to Airdrionians. A memorable middle to a season that continued to the end.
Of course if you ask a fan at the start of the season what they want from that year you can guarantee that opinion will change several times before the end of the season is even close, "a decent cup run", "top 2 in the table", "a decent cup of tea at certain grounds", if we are honest a fan's opinion has the potential to change a few hundred times in a normal 90 minutes never mind over the 3240 minutes (not including cup games and play-offs) of the 36 league games. Fickleness is a football fan's best trait and keeps the rest of football on its toes.
Quick note: Carol will be taking part next weekend in the Garmin Barcelona triathlon to raise funds for Raith Rovers supporters trust. For more information and details of how to sponsor check out the Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/TRIing4theRovers
This edition of Paella and Bovril came from Raith's home game against Falkirk that saw an early lead from Rovers and a late equalizer from Falkirk. Enjoy!
P.S Please support me in my triathlon. Check out my page.
To say that football fans are a fickle bunch is very much a understatement. Supporters, whether they be the fanatic that knows every inch of their clubs facts and figures or the one down the pub who vocalizes his disgust at the recent performance they can be happy one minute and seconds later threatening to never watch another game to milliseconds later naming their first born after the entire team, are as changeable as the Scottish weather.
With the new season, new championship, new chapter in Scottish football well under way and those involved just about getting used to the divisions' names, the cries from the volatile fans remain pretty much the same. Not even the "best team in the world" are immune to claims that they are just not living up to expectation. In the 5 friendlies that FC Barcelona played in they let in 6 goals and scored 19, not against top notch opposition, but still not a bad average. Were the fans happy, was the media, (Barcelona's biggest lover and critic) going to praise them or would they want more from their club? With a 100% record to start the season you would think that no fan could find fault but faults they will find, "Messi not playing to his full potential", "why have we not spent £85 million on a player", "we should have 8 instead of 7 past them", some fans just want it to be bigger and better than last time. We are only a few games into this season, and there is a long way to go and a good start to the season doesn't always mean a good end and with this new look Scottish game who knows how things will pan out for us fans. Will our season end in ecstatic happiness or dreadful discontent, what is better a solid start or a flourish at the finish?
Fans remember the good times and if it was really good and memorable the constant comparison to that time is inevitable. How many of us have counted the seconds until certain media types mention 1966? During a recent Raith Rovers Abroad broadcast the topic of strong start or fantastic finish briefly got a mention. Thoughts of course turned to 1994; cup win aside the talk was about the season's perfomance. Being a fantastic point in any fans memory the season is remembered as a great one. But was it the start or the finish that made it? In October after a defeat to rivals Dunfermline making Raith 6th in the table with 12 points, league matters were off to an ok start. Roll on to the traditional fixture-packed festive season, and Raith begin to string a decent set of results together. As a chat board member on RRA reminded us, in the 22 league and cup games that followed only 2 were lost, both to Airdrionians. A memorable middle to a season that continued to the end.
Of course if you ask a fan at the start of the season what they want from that year you can guarantee that opinion will change several times before the end of the season is even close, "a decent cup run", "top 2 in the table", "a decent cup of tea at certain grounds", if we are honest a fan's opinion has the potential to change a few hundred times in a normal 90 minutes never mind over the 3240 minutes (not including cup games and play-offs) of the 36 league games. Fickleness is a football fan's best trait and keeps the rest of football on its toes.
Quick note: Carol will be taking part next weekend in the Garmin Barcelona triathlon to raise funds for Raith Rovers supporters trust. For more information and details of how to sponsor check out the Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/TRIing4theRovers
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