Ever visited Wuhan? Grey, grey and miles more grey.
> 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 > <http://sabotagetimes.com/music/coldplays-mylo-xyloto-catchier-than-cholera/ >> Coldplay 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 > <http://sabotagetimes.com/camouflage/the-observers-book-of-association-footb > all/> The Observer, 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. > > <http://sabotagetimes.com/football/where-did-it-all-go-wrong-for-wolves> > Where Did It All Go Wrong For Wolves? > > Factor in an unseemly obsession with how > <http://sabotagetimes.com/football/west-brom-if-we-keep-trying-to-accommodat > e-anelka-well-go-down> West Bromwich Albion 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 > <http://sabotagetimes.com/travel/the-very-lonely-planet-guide-bracknell/> > Lonely Planet Guide, 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. > > Logo <http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/images/permanent/RMS_Email_Logo.png> > > 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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