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I mean, I'm probably more likely to believe the best performing teams in football at all levels over posters on a message board. There's so much evidence that, in the modern game, this is what you do if you want to succeed. We see that across countries, divisions, you name it. If we design our club to appease the average fan's sense of what is important in the short term we'll be a disaster. That's because mostly modern football is about intelligence rather than emotion and we're all fans so the latter trumps the former. The disconnect in that short term view between what fans want and what players and clubs want is a real problem. Witness the reaction on here to Johnson's turn of phrase. The only thing that can bridge that gap is results. That is ultimately what football fans care about. Get those going and discomfort about the methods of modern football clubs melt away.