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England winning the World Cup (40 votes)
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Town winning the League 2 title (50 votes)
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England or Town Success?

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July 8, 2018, 10:27pm
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Country over club for me. If we actually won the world cup, I really don't know what I would do with myself. Got a golden ticket for Sunday as well. Can barely sleep, it's madness this.
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I'm unsure why they have to be mutually exclusive, and for this reason I'm not voting.


It's just a bit of fun. Or if you prefer something more serious, it's a 'thought experiment'   .


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Loving the vibe around England at the minute and that we've got a team to be proud of, at last.

But it's Town every time.  The sheer amount of time I spend thinking about Town, checking news, reading stuff on here, checking out what other fans are saying about players we've signed etc. means they dominate a lot of my thoughts.

I felt anger for most of last season over how badly the club is run, the whole Slade farce reign, the lack of respect for the fans.  That changed to hope and optimism under Jolley but with an underlying anger still towards how the club is run.   I don't feel anything like that for England.  

The national side are in my mind for a month (at best) every two years.  I'll watch the friendlies and the qualifiers but I have no investment in them.  The vast majority of the other 23 months I don't care about them really.  This summer it does feel different but when we've gone out of a tournament it has felt more like a 'ah, felicitations sake' type moment with a few days moaning about how crap/unjust it was and then returning to normality without much adjustment.  

The relegation from the Football League in 09/10 left a gloom over that summer, right until we snatched a 1-0 win at Crawley on the opening day.  The summer before I was bouncing around with optimism thinking Barry Conlon and Peter Sweeney would steer us to promotion.  As Poojah states, there's nothing that would ever come close to how I felt during that Bristol Rovers shoot-out.  When Pittman missed his penalty my legs gave way and I just collapsed as everything drained out of me.  I can't ever imagine feeling that way about England.  I don't have the same connection with the players as a I do those that represent the club I support every day of the year.  As stated, it feels different this year but when Henderson missed against Columbia I was gutted, when Pittman missed my heart went out to him as as person.  To the person who was part of the community, who lived here and shared our journey that season.  All that pain, all that frustration was what meant the following season so vital and also made the FGR win that bloody amazing.  We all cried, either inside or outside, when Disley wept on TV away at Braintree.  I can't imagine I'll be crying if Nick Pope's bottom lip starts going at some point.

I would also have gone for both if it was an option.
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