The value of supporting a team that wins a cup comes not from the
knowledge that your team is the best in any abstract or
general sense, but from knowing that
when your team was asked to do something, it did, and
when it was asked to do the next thing it did that as well, and on and on through the season, until eventually the world ran out of
questions and rewarded your persistence and fortune with a medal and a ride in an open - top bus.