Johhny Worth was before my time
Wow.
Today's been a reality check for me!
First off, too vulnerable to be back at ML with all you invulnerable youngsters.
Now, the great Johnny Worth, well and affectionately recalled, is before your time!
Hope I'm still here when it's safe for me to go back to our ground! 😉
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In all sincerity, so do I. Sometimes its easy to forget that we aren't all in the same boat. Stay safe in the meantime and hopefully you'll judge the risk is low enough for yourself at some point this year.
Thanks Cheshire.
Due my second jab in a few weeks so a fortnight after that, I'll chance seeing some of the grandkids.
Can't see either myself or Mrs S being back at ML before next season 😕
(For the record, Tom Peers. Maybe it's just me, but I reckon he's been on it lately - how many strikers have we had post Maunders who have done this well with goals/assists when we've been top half of the Conference?)
Since you mention it -
https://off-guardian.org/2020/12/19/how-belarus-exposes-the-lockdown-lie/Note the line - "fans were allowed to continue attending games". Frankly, it's largely mass testing that is keeping this going. Look at total deaths and deaths in other years. Look at 2020 total deaths - the worst year for deaths since 2008 when adjusted for population (or so I heard). I remember some people who should've known better moaning about GH in 2008 but not people terrified about the death rate! If you'd have been ok to attend Spennymoor Town last March (as over 1000 of us did), you should be ok to attend now. At any rate, people should be allowed to make their own decisions and fans should be allowed to return in full immediately.
(Hello "London" Alty. Gonna give it your usual? I dare say you want to! Or do something useful and add something we didn't know about Belarus... but as long as this is an issue affecting Altrincham fc first team, I dare say some of us will comment on it on the first team forum, and we won't all necessarily agree with your views).
Hard to see any good outcome for next season. If we need one of those tests within 36 hours of a match (as happened with Everton last year), that might put off some floating support (and radio 4 reiterated that a lot of people from ethnic minorities have been refusing that "vaccine"). Vaccine passports, apart from being criminal and creating a group of second class citizens, would inevitably see some people unable to attend (even if only 20% refuse the "vaccine", if 1/4 of those don't bother with tests, that would still be 5% less able to go to games). And if there are not compulsory tests or "vaccine" passports to attend matches, those of a more nervous disposition might refuse to attend ("London" snowflakes?).
As for 1991, it was 100% burnout. A run to the 1st round of the FAC (ludicrously starting in the 1st qualifying round), the semis of the FAT (with 2 sf legs), the semis of the CSC (and we used our first team in those days), plus 1 or 2 matches in the BLT, add to that some expensive signings by Barnet around the time we played them (h) - Carter from Runcorn for one - and it's easy to see why we lost ground.