Lonely at the top

The backlash has begun against League Two’s moneybags

Six points out of six, more cash being splashed, no wonder the rest of League Two is jealous of County says FanZones Richard Medley.

The rest of League Two doesn’t seem to like us very much at the moment.

All of a sudden, we’re public enemy number one, and to be honest, we really don’t mind one bit. The forums have been awash with messages of support from Man City fans (new best friends), Fulham fans, West Ham fans, the list goes on…with 23 notable exceptions.

Even F*rest fans have been wishing us luck through gritted teeth, and with a mild look of panic behind their well-meaning eyes.

The media backlash has already begun. As normal in this country, we find ourselves an underdog, support it and then as soon as it looks like becoming top dog, we turn on it.

Backlash

Sven, having just finished adjusting the height on his chair and arranging the plants in his new office, was a mere four weeks into a five year contract before the first article was published, in The Mail online. ‘Eriksson effect starting to lose lustre’ was the headline, written by a chap called Neil Moxley.

Last week we smashed our eighteen year old transfer record and somehow managed to persuade Kasper Schmeichel to drop three divisions to become part of our revolution and this morning the perennial underdog is quietly dozing towards the top of League Two after last weekends mauling of Macclesfield. It appears that Mr Moxley may have been wrong.

Having made the short trip across the Pennines on Saturday in buoyant mood after the opening day demolition of Bradford, my friend and I, spent most of the second half, as we have most of the last month, in a state of joyful bemusement as Notts took on another ‘League Two Stroll’.

In true Keith Alexander style, Mac spent the afternoon attempting to kick lumps out of the boys in black and white, who were quite simply in a different class. Neil Bishop suffered broken ribs and skipper John Thompson played on with a broken nose. Despite the referee giving the home side virtually everything, the Magpies were in a league all to themselves.

Test

Looking forward now to the trip to Saltergate on Wednesday night.

It’s a tricky place to go, and they’re sure to want to prove a point after our very public attempt to prize Jack Lester from them in the summer. Chesterfield will be a different proposition to Macclesfield, and will be one of the harder away games of the season.

We won’t win all our games by four and five, we all know that, but there’ll be around 1500 very optimistic underdog’s leaving work a little early on Wednesday, and making their way into Derbyshire.

Notts are in buoyant mood, and are bound to be a little peckish come Wednesday night, if we can lick our wounds, put chief bearer of teeth Ricky Ravenhill in front of the back four, and offer Lee Hughes the one chance he needs to jump on the postman, the underdog turned big dog, may well just bite.

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