- Aug 31, 2012
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I miss football. Once we used to play it but that seems a long time ago
Couldn't agree more. I watched both my lads play well and win their games yesterday morning and get more satisfaction out of it. I actually joked with some of th parents as I was heading back home that you can always count on Spurs to ruin a good day....and they obliged!To be honest I haven't really missed football much. Part of it is due to our poor performances and if its not spurs playing then watching other games has now become a bit boring a tedious for me. Along with this, I have recently started to manage my son's Under 7s team and get 100% more satisfaction from being involved in this than i do watching Spurs play. I get more of a buzz when my under 7s are playing a match and seeing them play well - at least they try and make an effort
'Sup my dudes?"Disease" is a great choice of word that captures exactly how I feel about Spurs and football. Looking back on the 25 years I've followed Spurs for, I remember feeling miserable due to football far, far more than I remember feeling happy due to it, and that ratio of misery to happiness hasn't changed much even during our supposed renaissance period of the last 10 years, so it wasn't just Gerry Francis and Colin Calderwood colouring my present view.
Like @vicbob, I was already set to cancel my OH membership this summer because I could no longer stomach handing over money to ENIC, who I feel to be cold, unromantic and avaricious owners who are solely involved with the sport to increase the value of their investment and who are completely indifferent to making the lives of any Spurs fans happier, unless by sheer chance that happens as a by-product of an action in service of their overriding monetary goals.
But it's more than just that. The enforced time-out that covid has put on mine and everyone else's lives has given me pause to realise that I dislike more things about football than I enjoy. I dislike the obscene money that has taken over the upper echelons of the game: players, staff and owners alike. I dislike my emotions being manipulated (more often than not for the worse) by events which I have no control over. I dislike inane small-talk chatting and point-scoring bait-y arguments about football with colleagues and friends, and sometimes my own family. I dislike the TV, radio and press coverage of football and especially the circus around football like transfer speculation and contract rumours. And with the likes of VAR and the dogmatic defence of its implementation by authorities who never even acknowledge its maddening inconsistencies let alone try to fix them, I'm increasingly disliking the game of football itself.
For my own peace of mind I'll allow my Sky Sports season ticket pass on NOW TV to expire without renewal when it runs out, and cancel the BT Sport add-on I have with my broadband. When football does restart, the sheer ubiquity of its coverage means it will be pretty hard to avoid even without those mainline feeds, but I think I'm going to try and frame myself in my mind as a former football fan and see how that goes for just not giving a shit about any of it. The hardest part will be getting across my change of heart to the people who know me and use football as a regular topic to shoot the shit on, because it's not easy to say to people that you'd rather not talk about something as (on the face of it) harmless as football because it makes you feel miserable.
Absolutely with you mate, my love of football died several years ago, spurs kept me hooked for a few years more, but even that faint ember that has held me for awhile has all but died now.'Sup my dudes?
Exactly this……..I used to live for 3pm Saturday afternoon………..even when we were a lot shitter than we are now. But the game I loved unfortunately is gone forever, and I get that things must progress but in football’s case it’s definitely for the worse. I still love this club and always will and going to the games with my son was one of my great joys and when my grandson is a bit older, him as well, but it will never hit those highs again…….and that’s a real shame…Absolutely with you mate, my love of football died several years ago, spurs kept me hooked for a few years more, but even that faint ember that has held me for awhile has all but died now.
I feel happier not getting bothered by it, it doesn’t dominate my weekends, and I don’t get bothered if we perform like today, I just don’t care anymore.
In a way, It’s sad that something that was so important to me for 35 years has been taken away, football in general is totally corrupt and led by money grabbing FIFA and oil doped clubs, but ENIC and in particular DL have sucked the joy out of the club I loved for so long, but I honestly enjoy my weekends more, so maybe the poison dwarf ain’t so bad ?
SC is still my first port of call for all other subjects in the world though, there are some interesting people on here, just best staying out of the football threads.
Absolutely. I never get excited watching spurs anymore. Its more relief when we score / win then enjoyment.Exactly this……..I used to live for 3pm Saturday afternoon………..even when we were a lot shitter than we are now. But the game I loved unfortunately is gone forever, and I get that things must progress but in football’s case it’s definitely for the worse. I still love this club and always will and going to the games with my son was one of my great joys and when my grandson is a bit older, him as well, but it will never hit those highs again…….and that’s a real shame…