Let’s be clear about why we’re going down. It has nothing to do with pies running out or poor replica shirts. My point always was — and remains — that it’s all too easy to moan and groan about the football club you support.
In terms of apologising, I always said that I would do so if I turned out to be wrong about Swann. Clearly I was wrong and as a man of my word I’ve done what I said that I would, but contrary to some comments it wasn’t at all difficult. There’s absolutely no shame in being wrong — every single person on this board will have been wrong about many things in their lives. Calling people who might have been wrong about Swann idiots is, itself, idiotic.
All of that aside, what I find so disappointing about Swann is how weak the man’s turned out to be. He’s hardly the first owner of a club to lose league status, but what I find unforgivable is his lack of leadership at the very time we need it most, i.e. now.
The guy should be admitting his mistakes, taking the criticism on the chin and vowing to get the club back to winning ways — and league status. But he’s effectively disappeared. Given what we’re seeing happen in the world right now, which let’s be honest puts what we’re going through as football supporters very much into perspective, Swann’s failure to stand-up and be counted is cowardly in the extreme.
