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I just wish that this football club would hurry up and die the death that it has been trying to for the past 22 years that I have been wasting my life following it.

I am sick to death of trying to reconcile the financial and emotional burden that I have laid out on this tin pot pile of ****e excuse for a football club over this time, and am fed up of it ruining my life. This is it now for me, I have given up and refuse to allow my mood during the working week to be dictacted by the cancer that is NTFC.

I have spent my life shouldering my NTFC worries now for too long, and simply refuse to let them dictate my life any further. They are an embarrassment to me and my family (why the **** I ever dreamed of introducing my young children into a life of supporting these ****s is beyond me). I've had enough of my 11 year old son being ridiculed in his own town for following his local professional league side, and feel thouroughly ashamed of myself for putting him through this. Naiveity, blind optimism, call it what you want - just thought that bringing him into a life supporting his local team would be a positive thing... what a ****e father I feel this evening.

We are probably the most hated and derided football club by it's local population in the football league (is there any other club more hated by it's own towns folk than ours??) and this feeling just gets stronger and stronger by each passing season. The fans of this club are either too deluded to see that all involved with it are flogging this dead horse, or do not give a **** anyway. It is about time that things were allowed to run their natural course.

Please, please, please will everybody involved with this burden on my life allow it to just die, fade away, evaporate and disappear ASAP. I cannot take the delusion that better times are forthcoming any more, the dissapointment that each Saturday night leaves me with, the p*ss taking hahas when I walk into work on a Monday morning (I work in the same town as the club for ****s sake), my children's friends laughing at him for having the lunacy to follow his home town team - I cannot deal with this any longer and need this ****e OUT of my life.

As long as NTFC is around, I'll be there. Suffering the soul diminishing drug that is this institution. Scourge of my life. Just die please, leave my life and allow to me to get on with things - grieve, suffer a few months of depression and then move on to realise that there are more things to a weekend than being put through this. Life is far too short for this ****e, and I for one am ready to cut it loose.

I have 100% officially given up. With any luck, I am not the only one. I need this football club out of my life, and the sooner the better.

Ted wrote:Contrary to popular belief, I've only ever supporTED the Cobblers.However,that allegiance does not stretch to supporting a non-league club.

Well Im very much preparing for it, in a mental sense. I have fully accepted that we are down now and trying to find the positives out of a clutch of local derbies, some nice (or not so nice) seaside towns and some genuinely interesting locations to visit. We have a manager who has been promoted from the division previously so he should know whats needed. As well as a budget that can only be rivalled by Luton's (lets hope they go up via the play offs).

We cannot be compared to Mansfield or Cambridge, they have huge problems off the pitch. Where as we don't. We are stable from a financial point of view, we should be fine. When it will hit me know will be when we have to play in the qualifying stages of the FA Cup and are in the draw for the FA Trophy. Ouch!