It could be argued that two years is a long time in football.

Seasons come and go, trophies change hands, championships and tournaments make new heroes and villains, clubs and countries surprise and disappoint, managers’ stars rise and fall, and new players emerge while favourites retire.

Through it all, it’s the fans who remain a constant inspiration, and if there is one thing that (nearly) two years of Voiceoffootball has proved, it’s that football’s fans have been our biggest asset and are to the game as a whole.

Football people aren’t a group of stuffy executives, foreign mercenaries or ambitious marketing professionals; they’re the men and women who live and breathe the game on the terraces, in the stands, near their TV’s and radios, through their computers, by pawing over newspapers and magazines and from talking to friends, relations, workmates and mere acquaintances.

Whether at work or at play, football is, for everyone who cares about it, synonymous with being ‘Always on my mind’. Fixtures, results, tables, controversies, transfers, managerial changes, ownership wrangles; in fact you name it and they’ll be a football fan living and breathing it right now. Tap into the knowledge, passion and dedication of football’s community of fans and you’d have an encyclopaedia on the beautiful game that would eclipse anything football's businessmen and lawmakers could muster.

As we approach a new Premiership milestone with the £1bn wage bill, how ironic that the one group of people in football who, far from earning anything from the game actually plough money into it, are still considered inferior to those who misconstrue power and money for genuine influence.

Undervaluing your greatest asset - your foot soldiers, or water-carriers to coin a Cantona phrase - is something that many companies do every day of the week, but where football supporters are concerned the beautiful game treats them remarkably shabbily.

Voiceoffootball has proved that supporters really are in football for one thing and one thing only, the football. All our amazing columnists did it for the love of the game, and how many people who are in football for anything but the love of it would do that?

Money can’t buy passion, knowledge comes from passion and dedication is what inspires both. It’s a loyalty unlike any other and it gets to the heart of what football really is all about once you strip away the frippery, window dressing and commercialism.

Most of us can still muster optimism for the start of the season, even if there is little evidence that it will be rewarded, and when May brings an inauspicious end to a campaign, August is still eagerly anticipated as another nine months of highs and lows begins.

Defeat after defeat doesn’t put us off. Relegation gives us a tilt at promotion. Failure just means that there’s another chance to experience success. Winning is raw joy, but we’ll keep the faith through 0-0 draws.

You can’t promise you’ll give up football because when the game’s got you it’s got you. Nothing can match it and you’d be lost without it; the bad times are but a break from the good ones that are just around the corner (which corner you’re still working out).

Football fans - you, me and all those guys and girls out there - are the people who make the beautiful game what it truly is: the people’s game.

Voiceoffootball’s legacy will be decided by you, not us, but from the Editor’s perspective I would like to think that there’s a lesson in what we’ve done that the rest of football can learn; namely that it’s about what you put in, not what you take out.

It’s our beautiful game; live it, love it and don’t ever lose sight of what makes it special.

Thanks for your support.