Its my opinion if you have a team full of fancy fair-playing flouncy midfielders you aint winning anything. you need a right bastard in the mix. Its also my opinion in life, with any protest you also need the right bastard.
Take the campaign against Whaling.
Greenpeace do a great job of publicising the cause
The Whale and Dolphin Conservation team do a great job of lobbying governments and working with the locals asking them niceely to not kill any more whales.
Sea Shepheard, get in big fk off boats and ram Icelandic and Japanese whaling vessles.
All 3 work together, they don't like one another because they conflict in values BUT they are needed.
With something like the council, you need a calm measured diplomat to have conversations, you need the kids and positive message, BUT you also sometimes need a right bastard. This is something I've done a lot, its not nice to be frank but when it comes to developers, councils and the rest, sometimes you need to be an annoying 'orrible git to help move things along.
When we were crashing in 99 having the Town Hall full of Oxford fans DID move the needle, 100000000% without that show of support, we would have had a bankrupt club.
