2008

Saturday, 02 August 08, 02:03 AM · Comments (0)

Morning Terras fans!!! It is that time of year when thoughts turn to the start of the season and the quest for three points.

But this being football in our part of Dorset, things are never quite that easy. Rumours have been circulating after an article in this weeks Western Gazette over the future of a club that could be going to the wall for the sake of just £1000.

Not only is that a ridiculous amount of money to lose a football club for, it just shows how mad the upper echelons (loving that word!) of the game are if the fat cats can watch a club potentially die for such minimal debts.

For once this isn't Weymouth FC involved, but our near neighbours from over the hill Dorchester Town. And despite an intense local rivalry between their club and ours, I would not want to see them cease to exist at all, let alone for such a trivial debt in todays society.

If the story is completely true and has no journalistic embellishment then it is very sad and I wish them well in their quest to get it sorted out. Eddie Mitchell, their owner, is not everyones cup of tea and the similarities between us and them are not just geographic with him also being a property developer. But taking all cynicism out I hope they get this fixed and that they safely take their place (albeit undeserved!!) in Conference South.

And you know what? That's the difference between us and other clubs fans. We have stared down the barrel more than once and survived (and remain surviving), so I would like to think that all Weymouth fans have that ability to see the bigger picture and wish that clubs stay in business even if it is their local rivals.

Compare that to those scummers we are playing today and the contrast couldn't be greater.

There is one who lives in my neck of the woods now. And on the day our club died he was on a local football forum laughing his arse off at how "little Whymuff" were dead in the water. When I tried to respond by asking about the many decades of history our club had, including many great battles with his own team and why he wouldn't miss that rivalrly, he said he didn't care and that the day we ceased to exist as a club would be the best day of his life...

So JHMBE or whoever at the club may be reading this, today is no friendly for me. I don't like being laughed at, certainly not by Yeovil fans. It was hard enough having to work their all those years ago when we were cheated out of the Trophy by a blind official not seeing a blatant handball. This match means something and will always mean something to me. I hope our players and officials and supporters feel the same.

I may be in London today watching Arsenal - Juventus (scouting for JHMBE!!) but thanks to the legend that is Sporran I will be in possession of the score come the end of the match. I wait with baited breath.

COME ON YOU TERRAS!!!

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