Aussiebuddy. look.
Just because the ceiling fan is not working properly doesn’t mean it warrants people walking around stating “Bah I could be cooler but the ceiling fan is broken”, “Imagine having a cool breeze go through the room… but then the ceiling fan is broken”, “the neighbour’s ceiling fan is not broken” all day long for years.
And there is little point in asking for footballing arguments to convince you why the situation isn’t bad, you discard every argument against your mindset given a little time anyway, it is not a big feat. Given any scenario you can imagine a better one, we know, congratulations, you’re like everybody else and Real Madrid sack a manager who wins the league.
With time you lot have convinced yourselves that it wasn’t considered an improvement to win the FA cup after a decade of no trophies, or to win the CL group back when we constantly got 2nd, or to get the “4th place trophy” crap off our backs, or to sign top class players from top teams that slotted right in for big money etc. It means nothing now and neither will my next footballing argument either.
And realise there is hypocrisy in saying you’re just realistic, if it was realism you’d get that you can’t affect the outcome and there is realistically little point in being down about it. You’re not neutral, you’re a football fan, you get happy when a set of people who are indifferent to your existance kick a ball into the net of a set of players who also are unaware of you being alive. And there is not much factual value to concluding that we haven’t scored vs. team2 in three games or similar. You’ll find that stuff about every team in the world, there are simply that many variables and that much time passed.
What I’m saying is that this warrants being positive as it actually does good things for everyone, both you and those who share any space with you.
tl:dr; lighten up it’ll lift the mood, we’re in this together, powerless as fuck all of us.
edit: and to clarify, I clearly do not mean knee-jerk emotional reaction, all this is more about the long-term pessimism, and it is not meant as an attack on you.