Over the next few issues, I'm going to explode some of the myths you'll hear from some of society's most inadequate members. I'm Iain Macintosh. I'm a fan, but more importantly, I’m an egg.
Here's an example of what I mean; at the beginning of the season, a group of bewilderingly stupid Manchester United fans launched a 'Fergie Out' protest outside the gates of their Carrington training ground. Has there ever been a more ill-advised manoeuvre?
Two seasons ago Charlton Athletic fans were grumbling on Five Live that Alan Curbishley had taken the team as
far as they could go and that they needed someone to come in to end their everlasting run of mid-table mediocrity. It looks like they've got their wish. They'd kill for mid-table mediocrity now.
The one constant theme that runs through all these radio phone-in shows is the presenter's inevitable tag-line: "The show that gives the football supporter the chance to have their say." Now, why on earth would anyone want to know what a football supporter thinks? The majority of football fan's opinions should be like masturbation and Radiohead albums; best kept to the privacy of your own home.
