Now our situation has been transformed. We are now in lowly League 1 and had to cope with a 10 point deduction. We now have a new owner with generously deep pockets, a new CEO who not only is able to articulate a vision for improving our situation but is delivering it more quickly than anyone thought possible. We have an excellent manager who speaks the truth and is building a very good team. We sit mid-table, with an excellent run of recent results and a chance of making the play-offs for promotion. The feel good factor has returned to St Mary's.
Our bitterest rivals - Portsmouth - are in as dark a place now as we were in 6 months ago. We should be able to understand what it might feel like for them. When sympathy is able to use its energy to develop into empathy, the power of transformation becomes unleashed to enable new things to be done. I was delighted when a fellow fan began a thread on the Saints Forum with this post:
Bucket collection for the Skates? In times of need i think we should ignore what's happened previously, bury the hatchet so to speak and offer the hand of friendship to our less well off fishy-friends down the road. I suggest a bucket collection before, during and after the match to scrape together some much needed funds for the blue few, hell we might raise enough to pay for the teams bus fare to and yes indeed from St.Mary's. Any other fund raising ideas?
But unfortunately my fellow fans have done nothing but deride this laudable suggestion. There have been all kinds of suggestions about what we could put in the buckets - from the inane to the creative.
I think this is sad and unfortunate and shows two things:
- How hatred is able to diminish humanity
- How short some people's memories are.
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