Well said. The football was secondary to what was happening off the pitch. I was just a humble footsoldier in BISA army but I saw first-hand the immense amount of effort that John Baine (Attila) put in alone, not just for Fans Utd but during the whole of the 'war years'. It consumed his life. As Wozza has said it didn't 'just happen'.I reckon that season has knocked a fair amount off my life total. Not the just the football, but the protests marches demos and the sheer physical and emotional investment made...it was exhausting!! Explaining continually to anyone who would listen that an enormous social injustice was happening and they had to get involved and this was how to. And then the fight to Bring Home the Albion...my god, how we ploughed the troughs of crushing despair in the mid to late 90s. I felt utterly utterly dejected at times like we were never going to wake up from the longest nightmare imaginable. And then on matchdays you'd see thousands of others weren't going to take it lying down either, that we could do something together. Just muck in. The supporter leaders of that era should be cast in bronze on the walk up from the station at the Amex. Proper heroes. The Few, just without the spitfires!
"And one day when our new ground's built and we are storming back, a bunch of happy fans without a care ..."
