PM: Ipswich Town supporters who come on this message board

delighting in your rivals demise.

It may surprise you somewhat, but we can see right through all the trolling and bravado. You're just riddled with bitterness, jealousy, insecurity and a massive inferiority complex. FACT.

I acknowledge that your team have achieved many more 'honours' than us in the past, congratulations, but it has absolutely nothing to do with what your team has achieved in the modern era, and in the modern game.

The thing is, your achievements have become your comfort blanket... your favourite cuddly teddy bear. You're so weighed-down with the obsession of your past-glories, you've become blind to your own team's decades of mediocrity. Your attitude here screams.. "It doesn't matter that we're s**t now because we once won the First Division, the FA Cup and the UEFA cup." Well whoop-dee-doo for you. The thing is with history, is that it's constantly being rewritten, so is it not more important for you to witness more major achievements during your lifetime, so that future generations of your fans in centuries to come are not still referring to the great Sir Alf and Sir Bobby and all they achieved between 1962 and 1981.

As a Town fan, you'd have to be at least 60 now to remember that Division 1 title.

You'd have to be over 40 to properly remember the FA Cup and UEFA Cup wins.

Since then? Absolutely nothing to shout about for those generations of supporters. Only the satisfaction of telling their off-spring about the good old days. Ah yes, those were the days.

So what about the modern game then? Four seasons in the Premier League in total, but it's been 12 years... 12 seasons... 549 league games... of second tier football since you were last in the top flight.

Supporters would have to be aged at least 16 now to even remotely remember their last visit to PR to witness Premier League football.

I'm 47 now, and whilst I wasn't born in 1962 for our first League Cup Final win (albeit against Rochdale over two legs) and I don't recall our League Cup Final appearances at Wembley in 1973 and 1975, I was there in 1985 when we beat Sunderland. I'm proud of our two domestic cup wins and three Wembley cup final appearances, as well as being the first ever English team to beat Bayern Munich in Munich... all great achievements in our history, but totally irrelevant in what Norwich City strive to achieve now.

I'm lucky, as are the current generations of Norwich supporters to be able to see our club play the very best English teams week in and week out over the past three seasons. No wonder your rabid obsession with our lack of progress manifests itself on our message board. You desperately want what we've got, because you can't achieve it yourself. It's not fair is it? I mean, a massive club with your superior history having to play second fiddle to us, must be utterly humiliating.

Get over your history. Live for the present and make new history, or you forever live in your own shadow.

Posted By: Jim Nasium, Apr 20, 18:08:19