Season openers are always a strange thing to behold, this was no different. Three months of a football starvation after one season ends and another season begins. It is a long wait for fans to endure as your Saturdays take on a whole new meaning. No screaming at missed fouls, no bellowing at players lacking effort, no tears of joy as your team pulls improbable draw from the teeth of inevitable defeat. Three months of ‘filling in’ come down to today, three months of waiting, three months of pretending that there was another life out there for 90 minutes we call football.
The result is a byproduct of the game and one that will join the next 45 in determining the fate of Bradford City. Today’s result, a 4-1 defeat at Swindon is one that Bantams fans will look back on and and find hard to swallow. It is never a good way to start the season but some say that it is best to get the bad performances out of the way early on. In the grand scheme of things, it is one down and fourty-five to go for the fans. Ah the fans, how did they think it went today?
Swindon Town Vs. Bradford City – Bantams fans on Twitter react
Some simply have to say it how it is…
https://twitter.com/mattyclough_/status/630132613513093120
…others try to put a spin on things.
#bcafc I dreamt we conceeded 4 today. Weird. Except dreaming the team selection would have been weirder.
— Professor Logic (@Ian___Cooper) August 8, 2015
The sayers of doom are out already in some parts…
https://twitter.com/AccyGaz/status/630120538317455360
Some fans try to put a brave face of it…
Just seen the highlights. That was a royal seeing to in the 2nd half. Sad face. #bcafc
— Steven Orant (@Shteyven) August 8, 2015
…as do others…
https://twitter.com/jwscargill1/status/630118885631655936
…while realism is the way of the day for others.
Lets all stop whining ITS ONLY ONE GAME #bcafc
— HK (@HK__47__) August 8, 2015
A brave face is all that some need to cope…
420 miles…12 hour day…and a 4-1 defeat. Good to have football back #BCAFC
— Rob Dunn (@robdunn87) August 8, 2015
…and positivity is the way forward.
Might have lost 4-1 and spent 10 hours on a boiling hot coach, but it wouldn't be City any other way. On to York! #bcafc
— ßen (@BCAFCBH) August 8, 2015
Thankfully it’s only a flesh wound.
https://twitter.com/jonfozz/status/630104608535392256