Re: When playing Witton

I completely hate it as I'm always fearing the worst. You go there hoping for the ecstasy of stuffing the bastards, but it's always a gamble where you may instead see their arrogant, deluded, smarmy fans celebrating like they did after they took the lead last season. When that happens, all your worst nightmares are coming true and the frustration of following Blues is magnified.

It's pretty much the only fixture where I can really hear my heartbeat and my mouth gets totally dry with fear (the one exception I ever recall was the Norwich playoff final in 2002). Silly really, as it's just one of 46 league fixtures, but it's just the sense of injustice that fills you when they get one over us. Injustice because their fans deserve more than any, a really prolonged period in the football wilderness, getting hammered regularly by Blues, dropping into the bottom two divisions, losing loads of support and suffering massive financial hardship. They really, really deserve this, so every time they beat us or finish above us it simply prolongs the frustration.

I really prefer it when we don't have to play them, but not because they're in a higher division which has been the case so often - I want them in a lower division playing Bury and Fleetwood.