Motivation Quote by Robbie Fowler

Pressure is the quiet co-author of this line. Fowler starts with the blunt admission - "bad results" - but he doesn’t linger in apology. He pivots immediately to agency: "up to us". That shift is the whole trick. It’s locker-room language designed to compress panic into purpose, to turn a wobble in form into a test of character rather than a symptom of decline.

The phrase "make up the ground" is telling because it frames the season as terrain, not a table. You’re not just down on points; you’re behind in a race that can be run differently tomorrow. It’s practical optimism: no poetry, no excuses, just the belief that momentum is something you manufacture. For a striker like Fowler, that matters. The subtext is personal as much as collective: if the team is going to chase, someone has to score, and he’s implicitly volunteering.

Then comes the real cultural charge: "catch Manchester United". This isn’t any opponent; it’s the era’s benchmark, the club that turns everyone else into a measuring stick. Naming United does two things at once: it flatters them as the standard, and it dares Fowler’s own side to act like they belong in the same sentence. That’s the intent - to tighten focus, to provoke ambition, to remind supporters and teammates that the title race (and the club’s pride) is still alive if they choose to make it so.