The thing is, hardly any other football fans, apart from the purists, give a f*** about us, and rightly so.
Apart from recent days, we’re rarely covered by national media enough to warrant a considered response when it comes to fans of other clubs.
Burnley are shocking, but we never hear Dyche getting a bad rep, so who are we to judge? You’d probably find negativity on their forums or the Lancashire Telegraph.
The same goes for the likes of Watford, Fulham, Huddersfield, Palace and, to an extent, Brighton.
All we really see from other fans is “Oh I like to see Southampton do well, loved Le Tiss” etc.
Most aren’t clued-up enough, like we aren’t towards other clubs, to really mean we’re a laughing stock, especially with all the puff pieces about us and how great we are over the past five years. These, of course, stopped nearly a year ago when the media realised the great Pellegrino experiment was failing miserably.