AS a supporter of the Wanderers since the age of six when I sat on my fathers knee in the Burnden stand and was told to watch the great Ray Westwood play his last game before war broke in 1939 and as a season ticket holder for the great majority of the years since football started again in 1945, I have been finding it hard to accustom myself to the happenings of the last few months.

Times like these make one trawl back over ten or more visits to Wembley with Wanderers, FA cups play offs and even Freight Rover cups, the Burnden Disaster and luckily being at the right end of the ground, the ups and downs of the eighties and the rise to the Premier League in the nineties and the thought that maybe this was the end of the road.

Happily, now there is hope and thanks to the sterling efforts of many people the loyal staff, players, the administrators, and the Eddie Davis Trust.

The supporters will come back — the 5,000 will soon be 10/15,000 and while there is a mountain to climb there is always another season for all concerned to gird up their loins and, just as Ben Stokes did, try the impossible and succeed.

I hope like many more long termers like me, when the season ticket sales are announced, there will be queues wanting to get back to what we like doing best - supporting the Whites.

It gets in your blood and even when you are 86 you never lose the urge.

Your headline made by breakfast so much more enjoyable.

Colin Roberts