England, I Have Forsaken Thee

Last updated : 11 September 2008 By Carolina Tiger
I know this seems a strange question to ask but during this long, long boring week without a Hull City game, we have had to make do with scraps of information about Phil Brown and the infamous kicking of the water bottle leading to his FA charge. That is it, just one piece of real news about our club unless you consider away ticket allocations or who is away on international duty news.

You'd say the news is thin on the ground because all the 'top' teams' players are away on international duty and England are playing two World Cup Qualifiers, against Andorra (a giant of international football) and Croatia (the team that knocked us out of the last Euro tournament). Yet here is the crux of the problem: Why is there next to no chatter about England from Hull City fans? When we were in the lower reaches of the Football League an England game would have had everyone a twitter with excitement. Is it that we are becoming blasé about top flight football and can't be bothered with little England games?

We have been in the Premiership for only three games and nobody seems to care about England matches. Have we become that which we all hate: 'Arrogant' football fans that look down on the lower reaches of the Football League as teams that will never win anything? Teams that were just like us not so long ago. Maybe it is that when we were at the foot of the Football League we were living vicariously through the England team as they were a team who 'could' win something. They were a team that we could strike an allegiance to without wavering in our support of the Tigers.

The big question now though is: What has changed for us as a team? Are we going to win anything this season? And, more importantly, are we becoming what we hate most in the top flight football, 'Arrogant football fans'?

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