A Test of Faith

By: wan | September 29th, 2008

Who wants to be a football fan?

At times like these, I find myself asking the same question with no answer forthcoming.

In the space of a week, you saw your team take on the supposed two best teams in Spain and for some in Europe as well and even though they were their equals, there is nothing to show for your team’s efforts.

Anyone who says otherwise are blinded either by their own fervour and passion or by the nature of a certain biasness that lies with supporting the glamourous and the powerful.

For the second match in a row, Betis were well worth at least a point from a match if not more so and again they got sucker-punched and were left with nothing. When you realised that they have already tried their best and still the fates conspire against them, then it is really hard to accept the reality that right now, your team is third from the bottom and in relegation trouble.

I mean, in a game where Sergio Garcia finally fulfilled what he threatened to do against Barca and on a day when the team was clicking and playing well, plus the fact that Real Madrid were reduced to 10 men, how are you to react to a last minute goal out-of-nowhere that consigned you to defeat?

I don’t know how to deal with this to be honest… If the team was terrible and the players were pulling their weight, at least there would be cause for our sorrows and our anger. But when the team is playing well and the only problem is a question of luck or fate, then suddenly there is no where else to turn to, no one around to point the blame…

At these times, it becomes a question of faith – Do you believe in team and in what they are doing? Do you believe in what you have seen? Do you trust in their abilities and their composure to make things right? Do you have the fortitude to keep doing the right things and to believe that things will turn out right sooner or later?

The answer at least from this Betis fan is: YES – I WILL KEEP THE FAITH

I believe that things will turn out right and that the team will get back on track. I don’t need to read the various websites or blogs or even entries in this site to hear what others have to say… I have my own eyes and I know what I have seen.

Things can only get better and they will…

Villareal – you have been warned…