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Have you missed football?

Have you missed football?

  • Yes

    Votes: 97 23.3%
  • Yes but not Spurs

    Votes: 83 20.0%
  • No

    Votes: 236 56.7%

  • Total voters
    416

Bobbins

SC's 14th Sexiest Male 2008
May 5, 2005
21,548
45,031
I am developing a perverse desire to see football as a business internationally collapse... kinda want to see every club just fold and go out of business and football as a professional sport just disappear.

I get way more enjoyment from playing football than watching it these days, so it’s the playing that I’m missing.

Just wonder what it would be like if the sport didn’t exist as a professional game. Would love to see the likes of Redknapp and Carragher disappear from our screens permanently and struggle to find what to do with their lives.
 

dontcallme

SC Supporter
Mar 18, 2005
33,988
81,936
I haven’t, but have realised that football is one of the few things I can watch without thinking about anything else.

I’d like it back for that alone.
That's a really good point. All this free time to read and watch TV shows I haven't got round to before and I just can't focus. When watching a live game at home or at the pub I am living in the moment.
 

BringBack_leGin

Well-Known Member
Jul 28, 2004
27,719
54,929
I haven’t, but have realised that football is one of the few things I can watch without thinking about anything else.

I’d like it back for that alone.
This is a huge point. For most football supporters, football is escapism, and however we decry the financial beast it has become and it’s self importance, it all goes towards giving its followers the most immersive and engulfing experience possible. When I watch Spurs I don’t look at my phone, I don’t answer calls or texts, I don’t think about work or family issues or even anything that’s concerning me health wise. A significant hole has been left.
 

wizgell

Park Laner
Aug 11, 2004
5,373
1,722
I haven't missed it at all actually. Although some of the points around escapism are certainly true when I think of it, but even then recently Spurs weren't exactly doing wonders for our moods.
 

Spursmatty87

Well-Known Member
Jul 7, 2016
1,918
5,046
Think it’s a good point people are talking about football being an escapism. The problem I started to find that after my family and work spurs dominated a bit to much. Which can be a good thing but they can bring your mood down even though I think I’m quite level headed and I haven’t missed worrying about spurs.
 

Saoirse

Well-Known Member
Aug 20, 2013
6,143
15,550
I am developing a perverse desire to see football as a business internationally collapse... kinda want to see every club just fold and go out of business and football as a professional sport just disappear.

I get way more enjoyment from playing football than watching it these days, so it’s the playing that I’m missing.

Just wonder what it would be like if the sport didn’t exist as a professional game. Would love to see the likes of Redknapp and Carragher disappear from our screens permanently and struggle to find what to do with their lives.
I do wonder whether I'd be happier giving up my Spurs season ticket and following non-league instead. Went to a few Clapton matches before - they're fan-owned, get a few hundred every match, are extremely noisy and drink beer on the terraces, although there's also far-left politics which isn't to everyone's taste. But it was a great laugh and really might pull me away. I love Spurs and I always will. But I don't love £1,000 Season Tickets, constant fan negativity, millionaire primadonnas on the pitch, billionaire scumbags as owners, politically correct tossers telling me what to sing, huge difficulty in getting away tickets, the entire sit down shut up and don't have fun brigade. I'm young and I've only been going since the start of the Jol era, but it's already not what it used to be then let alone what I'm sure it was like at its peak.
 

bubble07

Well-Known Member
Dec 27, 2004
22,959
29,896
1 year ago today we were in shock that we went from going out to qualifying into CL SF thanks to the VAR ruling
 

bubble07

Well-Known Member
Dec 27, 2004
22,959
29,896
I do wonder whether I'd be happier giving up my Spurs season ticket and following non-league instead. Went to a few Clapton matches before - they're fan-owned, get a few hundred every match, are extremely noisy and drink beer on the terraces, although there's also far-left politics which isn't to everyone's taste. But it was a great laugh and really might pull me away. I love Spurs and I always will. But I don't love £1,000 Season Tickets, constant fan negativity, millionaire primadonnas on the pitch, billionaire scumbags as owners, politically correct tossers telling me what to sing, huge difficulty in getting away tickets, the entire sit down shut up and don't have fun brigade. I'm young and I've only been going since the start of the Jol era, but it's already not what it used to be then let alone what I'm sure it was like at its peak.

If you have supported spurs your whole life you wont be able to do that even if you think you want to
 
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spursfan77

Well-Known Member
Aug 13, 2005
46,680
104,957
Yeah I’ve just Prerecorded the ones they’ve got us on over the next week. Did you see which season they started playing the series with? It was the 76/77 season! Thank goodness they’ve now moved on.

This morning was the highlights of the game where we pretty much relegated Chelsea in 1975.
 

spursfan77

Well-Known Member
Aug 13, 2005
46,680
104,957
Think it’s a good point people are talking about football being an escapism. The problem I started to find that after my family and work spurs dominated a bit to much. Which can be a good thing but they can bring your mood down even though I think I’m quite level headed and I haven’t missed worrying about spurs.

I agree. Part of me dreads it coming back too.
 

Gassin's finest

C'est diabolique
May 12, 2010
37,355
87,831
I think if we go the full Amazon route, with stadium names and eventual ownership, I see myself becoming more of a casual follower, than a match going supporter. I love football, but generally prefer lower league footy. The over corporate nature of top flight footy switches me off these days.
 

The Scarecrow

Well-Known Member
Jan 17, 2013
5,597
12,201
I've not really been missing it, mostly because we've been so bad. Watched the CIty match from last year yesterday, and that yearning really hit me. I guess most of all I miss the football of spring of 2019, with a stadium opening and CL semi final within a month. But I really miss CL in general too.
 

riggi

Well-Known Member
Jun 24, 2008
48,487
104,720
The fact my heart sank a little when I heard we would be potentially finishing the season, would indicate it’s a no from me.

Wouldn’t mind the euros or world cup. Infact I think I actually prefer internationals:nailbiting:
 

Gbspurs

Gatekeeper for debates, King of the plonkers
Jan 27, 2011
26,946
61,827
The fact my heart sank a little when I heard we would be potentially finishing the season, would indicate it’s a no from me.

Wouldn’t mind the euros or world cup. Infact I think I actually prefer internationals:nailbiting:

I was really looking forward to the Euro's. In some respect I think it's a good thing a year delay as we can hopefully get Kane fit and rested and some of the younger players can push on.

Been spending my time watching old tournaments tinged with regret, the next euros felt like a chance to kick on from the World Cup at a mostly home tournament so its sad its not coming up.
 

spursfan77

Well-Known Member
Aug 13, 2005
46,680
104,957
I was really looking forward to the Euro's. In some respect I think it's a good thing a year delay as we can hopefully get Kane fit and rested and some of the younger players can push on.

Been spending my time watching old tournaments tinged with regret, the next euros felt like a chance to kick on from the World Cup at a mostly home tournament so its sad its not coming up.

Yeah lots of our players need the rest. Can be said of a lot of teams but I think ours definitely do. Add the physical tiredness on top of the champions league final loss, which I think nobody at the club have recovered from, and the break is very important. I think the break has made me forget about the final, annoyed I brought it back up actually!
 

homer hotspur

Well-Known Member
Dec 7, 2014
2,868
4,637
Been enjoying watching The Big Match Archives on BT Sport. They are on between 6 and 9 am. I check if we are featured and record them. Started with 2 from 74/75 season which I remember well as the season we escaped relegation with a win over Leeds in our final game, which was played after the rest of the season had all finished.The games featured though were a massive 6 pointer v Chelsea which we won 2-0( perryman, Conn) which helped send Chelsea down and the following week we lost 0-1 to Arsenal.
They have now moved onto 78/79 and today I watched us lose 0-3 v Man City. I couldn't remember this game at all so it was a very disappointing performance! Armstrong and Jones rather ' powder puff' up front and Keith Burkinshaw not even at the game as he was watching prolific Cambridge striker Alan Biley, who we never signed much to everyone's disappointment( sound familiar?). Archibald and Crooks not signed for another 2 seasons.
 

yankspurs

Enic Out
Aug 22, 2013
41,883
71,188
The fact my heart sank a little when I heard we would be potentially finishing the season, would indicate it’s a no from me.

Wouldn’t mind the euros or world cup. Infact I think I actually prefer internationals:nailbiting:
Domestic might return before international. Think we might either see the WC pushed back to get the full qualifying in or an abbreviated qualifying once theres a vaccine. I could see the euros cancelled altogether this go around.
 
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