“I started my support in the very early 1970’s when times were bad but never as dire as today.”
If this was all playing out in the early 70s things would be very different.
No social media, mobile phones or the internet. Not even Ceefax! Just the Evening Telegraph and the bloke down the pub. And those of us living out of town wouldn’t even have had that!
No one would have known it was all over until the fat lady was on her second chorus!