Football, like any sport, is all about sporting glory, wanting to improve, wanting to be the best, to challenge the perceived status quo, chip away at the so called elite teams, to stick one over the best. Treading water as a championship club being a big fish in a lesser pond is not what I want.
I dislike an awful lot about the Premier League, but I want my Boro in there punching above our weight, rattling the cages of the London and North West teams and their biased press coverage, ruffling feathers, annoying their fans by showing no respect to their perceived status and occasionally causing a right royal upset that makes even Alan Shearer and Lineker begrudgingly admit we played well. Maybe getting to an occasional cup final, getting underneath the skins of the press, opposition teams and their fans........ who are ya!!! It’s what we as Boro fans love and should be aiming for as a club. Lets build to get there, stay there and shake up the elitist nature of the PL and all it stands for. Nobody remembers who finished 4th in the championship or beaten play-off finalists.