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I would stress I originally wrote this about three/four weeks ago, this is just a copy and paste from my other blog.
Back in 2000 I started going to watch my local football team, Lincoln City, on a regular basis. I loved it and although we did crap in the 2000/1 and 2001/2 (my first year of having a season ticket) seasons, I was hooked. I loved the 2002/3 season after we made the Playoffs after being relegation favourites and three years after I first went on a regular basis I decided to create a website just after the 2002/3 season. It was my third attempt at creating a Lincoln City website and although it got off to a very slow start, it soon boomed due to me creating controversial articles and having a "no holds barred" attitude when it came to describing performances. Afterall, why should I bullshit and say a performance was good when it was shite?
Not that a large number of Lincoln fans could deal with that as a lot have been long deluded as to the team. For example, I consistently slag of the continuing decisions of managers to give Andy Hutchinson a new contract when virtually none of them play him when he's not injured, and when he is on the pitch he does fuck all, yet everyone seems to think that he has the sun shining out of his arse simply because he came out of the youth system. Just because a player comes out of the youth system doesn't mean he's good enough, and just 1 goal in 22 appearances for City as a striker says it all. People will say he has barely been given a chance but he came on for 30 minutes at Stevenage last season and didn't even touch the ball.
Infact, Lincoln fans are one of the main reasons I am giving up. I'm sick of some of them. I'm sick of sitting in the stand and having Lincoln fans not understanding the offside rule or seeing one of our defenders blatently handball in the area and being confused as to why the referee has given a penalty. If you're watching a defender hoof it forward and they see it land with a striker that's 20 yards behind the last defender, they automatically assume it was offside and berate the linesman. If only the fans would realise that because they were looking at the defender when the ball was played, they're not looking at the striker, and therefore the striker, if not flagged, would have been onside when the ball was played, but because no fans were looking at the attacker, they automatically assume that he was offside when the ball was played, whereas it's just not the case......and yes, I used to do a lot of linesman duty whilst playing in the Sunday League.
The worst part about that is that you try and explain that to them and they refuse to listen. It's impossible to explain to people who simply don't want to listen.
It's that sort of thing that does my absolute nut in. Lincoln fans are so ridiculously biased it's unbelievable. Some asked me why I am not part of the Lincoln City Banter page on Facebook and the reason is that virtually every single thread breaks into an argument with the usual people (who I won't name) always turning the argument into being about themselves rather than the original point of the thread.
Then there's not to forget the decision to not open the Stacey West to fans in some cup games this season. The childish reaction was ridiculous, you go to support the team, not the stand. I sit in the CO-OP Upper and do you hear me bitching and complaining that I couldn't sit in my normal seat? No. I just got on with it.
Anyway, so the website became quite popular and at one point average 19,000 average unique users a day......which I was exceptionally pleased with when you consider that the average attendance at Sincil Bank at the time was just over 5,000. I also started doing an away day video diary that also became reasonably popular, and even saw me featured in Zoo magazine one issue. In November 2007 I was named as the runner up in Virgin Media's Biggest Football Fan competition after being nominated by various members of the football club.
I will admit that all this relative success got to my head a bit and that, combined with the people who ran the Lincoln City Vital website poaching members from all the other forums, meant that hits went down considerable, only averaging 5,000 unique visitors a day.
It got to 2008/9 and I moved to Nottingham. After two months I decided that that would be that and I announced at the end of that season that I would stop doing the website, although due to popular demand I didn't in the end. Despite agreeing to stay, my passion for doing the website and the videos had gone.
When my Youtube account was forced to close in October 2010, I was relieved in a way, and although they did return, the passion for doing them wained. It became a bit of a farce because of the shit battery on an iPhone making it frustrating as I then wouldn't be able to use it on the way home unless I carried around my laptop for charging......it's a big bloody battery.
I have considered getting rid of the website and the videos for some time and in the last week I made the decision that they would finally be going. Three days without a single post being placed on the message board convinced me that the website was well past it's sell by date, combine that with a lack of passion for doing it anymore and I decided to call it a day.
I need a new challenge in my life and whilst I have received generally positive comments for the videos, I need more than that, I need motivation and I haven't had that for some time. If you read through the read of my blogs you will notice that I have often said that I want a change in my life and a new challenge. I've wanted to try various little projects for a few years but never had the time because of work, website and video selections.
The reason I have decided just to close the website rather than offering it to others is because everytime I have asked if anyone is interested in writing articles of a subject of their choosing, I usually get virtually no response and I figure that if no-one's willing to take just twenty minutes to write a one-off article, no-one's going to want to take up to ten hours a week updating pages, writing articles, etc.
Am I ruling out returning to website administration and video production in the future? No, not even slightly. For all I know this could just turn out to be a brief spell away from websites and Youtube, but for now it just doesn't interest me.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of those who have helped out and offered their support during the last eight years. It has been very much appreciated.
Not that a large number of Lincoln fans could deal with that as a lot have been long deluded as to the team. For example, I consistently slag of the continuing decisions of managers to give Andy Hutchinson a new contract when virtually none of them play him when he's not injured, and when he is on the pitch he does fuck all, yet everyone seems to think that he has the sun shining out of his arse simply because he came out of the youth system. Just because a player comes out of the youth system doesn't mean he's good enough, and just 1 goal in 22 appearances for City as a striker says it all. People will say he has barely been given a chance but he came on for 30 minutes at Stevenage last season and didn't even touch the ball.
Infact, Lincoln fans are one of the main reasons I am giving up. I'm sick of some of them. I'm sick of sitting in the stand and having Lincoln fans not understanding the offside rule or seeing one of our defenders blatently handball in the area and being confused as to why the referee has given a penalty. If you're watching a defender hoof it forward and they see it land with a striker that's 20 yards behind the last defender, they automatically assume it was offside and berate the linesman. If only the fans would realise that because they were looking at the defender when the ball was played, they're not looking at the striker, and therefore the striker, if not flagged, would have been onside when the ball was played, but because no fans were looking at the attacker, they automatically assume that he was offside when the ball was played, whereas it's just not the case......and yes, I used to do a lot of linesman duty whilst playing in the Sunday League.
The worst part about that is that you try and explain that to them and they refuse to listen. It's impossible to explain to people who simply don't want to listen.
It's that sort of thing that does my absolute nut in. Lincoln fans are so ridiculously biased it's unbelievable. Some asked me why I am not part of the Lincoln City Banter page on Facebook and the reason is that virtually every single thread breaks into an argument with the usual people (who I won't name) always turning the argument into being about themselves rather than the original point of the thread.
Then there's not to forget the decision to not open the Stacey West to fans in some cup games this season. The childish reaction was ridiculous, you go to support the team, not the stand. I sit in the CO-OP Upper and do you hear me bitching and complaining that I couldn't sit in my normal seat? No. I just got on with it.
Anyway, so the website became quite popular and at one point average 19,000 average unique users a day......which I was exceptionally pleased with when you consider that the average attendance at Sincil Bank at the time was just over 5,000. I also started doing an away day video diary that also became reasonably popular, and even saw me featured in Zoo magazine one issue. In November 2007 I was named as the runner up in Virgin Media's Biggest Football Fan competition after being nominated by various members of the football club.
I will admit that all this relative success got to my head a bit and that, combined with the people who ran the Lincoln City Vital website poaching members from all the other forums, meant that hits went down considerable, only averaging 5,000 unique visitors a day.
It got to 2008/9 and I moved to Nottingham. After two months I decided that that would be that and I announced at the end of that season that I would stop doing the website, although due to popular demand I didn't in the end. Despite agreeing to stay, my passion for doing the website and the videos had gone.
When my Youtube account was forced to close in October 2010, I was relieved in a way, and although they did return, the passion for doing them wained. It became a bit of a farce because of the shit battery on an iPhone making it frustrating as I then wouldn't be able to use it on the way home unless I carried around my laptop for charging......it's a big bloody battery.
I have considered getting rid of the website and the videos for some time and in the last week I made the decision that they would finally be going. Three days without a single post being placed on the message board convinced me that the website was well past it's sell by date, combine that with a lack of passion for doing it anymore and I decided to call it a day.
I need a new challenge in my life and whilst I have received generally positive comments for the videos, I need more than that, I need motivation and I haven't had that for some time. If you read through the read of my blogs you will notice that I have often said that I want a change in my life and a new challenge. I've wanted to try various little projects for a few years but never had the time because of work, website and video selections.
The reason I have decided just to close the website rather than offering it to others is because everytime I have asked if anyone is interested in writing articles of a subject of their choosing, I usually get virtually no response and I figure that if no-one's willing to take just twenty minutes to write a one-off article, no-one's going to want to take up to ten hours a week updating pages, writing articles, etc.
Am I ruling out returning to website administration and video production in the future? No, not even slightly. For all I know this could just turn out to be a brief spell away from websites and Youtube, but for now it just doesn't interest me.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of those who have helped out and offered their support during the last eight years. It has been very much appreciated.
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