A new documentary series on Crystal Palace which airs from Friday night offers a compelling insight into how it is to have a lifelong fan of the club as your owner.
Steve Parish carries such a weight of responsibility that he travels to away games with Mark Bright, desperate to glean any fragments of knowledge he can.
When his hugely successful first manager, club legend Dougie Freedman, ups and leaves for a better gig at Bolton and things start to falter, he can't stop telling his successor, Ian Holloway, what Dougie would have done.
'In the end, I had to say, "For Christ's sake, he left you," Holloway relates, in a memorable contribution to the film.