The impact of expectation on football is truly bizarre. On the one hand, it is responsible for much of the misinformed guff that currently clogs the internet, as we fans try (and fail most of the time) to separate our own partisan dreams from the actual facts. Yet on the other hand, I truly believe that football would be dead without it. Can you imagine a world where a club’s fan base only ever hope to achieve the most likely outcome? What would be the point? At the start of every season, much to the eventual delight of all my […]
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