Page 3 | To not understand all the obsession with footbaall

Thomasina79 · 2025-05-17T18:14:21+00:00

Live and let live and I understand people love it, but it’s a mystery to me? DH has been glued to telly today watching Crystal Palace!

Oblomov25 · 19/05/2025 13:17

I don't like cycling, fishing or cricket. But I can appreciate that some do. Is the same sentiment beyond your empathy comprehension? 🙄

ilovesooty · 19/05/2025 13:17

ACLtrouble · 19/05/2025 13:16

I’m going to break this to you gently, there’s other things to do in the world that don’t involve either playing or watching football. This does seem to be a hard theory for the football fans to grasp so I apologise to them in advance 🙏

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Continuing to patronise I see.

ACLtrouble · 19/05/2025 13:16

ZoggyStirdust · 19/05/2025 13:09

So is there something you do enjoy doing or watching?

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I’m going to break this to you gently, there’s other things to do in the world that don’t involve either playing or watching football. This does seem to be a hard theory for the football fans to grasp so I apologise to them in advance 🙏

Redpeach · 19/05/2025 13:10

The thing is with football fans is they can be a little obsessive, which affects people around them

ZoggyStirdust · 19/05/2025 13:09

ACLtrouble · 19/05/2025 13:05

Yes, well done - you seem to be grasping basic fact now. I am glad I had a DD as with a girl the chance of ending up stuck beside a rainy football pitch every Saturday morning watching them kick a ball around is far less than if I’d had a boy. Again, not sexist, just fact that football is far more popular amongst males. Frankly I’d rather stand and watch paint dry

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So is there something you do enjoy doing or watching?

ACLtrouble · 19/05/2025 13:05

CorbyTrouserPress · 19/05/2025 09:12

Of course it’s sexist. You are glad you had a DD because girls don’t like football is completely sexist. By your logic a far larger proportion of women are nurses than men therefore nursing is a profession for women. The world has changed since the 1950’s, you really should try and keep up with it.

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Yes, well done - you seem to be grasping basic fact now. I am glad I had a DD as with a girl the chance of ending up stuck beside a rainy football pitch every Saturday morning watching them kick a ball around is far less than if I’d had a boy. Again, not sexist, just fact that football is far more popular amongst males. Frankly I’d rather stand and watch paint dry

ilovesooty · 19/05/2025 12:56

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Unnecessary. I see your desire to sneer is unabated.

CorbyTrouserPress · 19/05/2025 12:54

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What a knobhead response

x2boys · 19/05/2025 12:49

Some typical mumsnet,responses, " I don't understand how people can like something I don't like"
I'm not a huge football fan and only get excited for the world and European cup
But football is huge and has millions of fans across the world mumsnet,can be so petty about it.

murasaki · 19/05/2025 12:48

Brefugee · 19/05/2025 11:43

i always say it's like the wands in Harry Potter "the wand chooses the wizzard, Harry"

But yes - once you're in, you're in.

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So true. It's my longest relationship, forged in primary school, outside the one with my parents and sisters. Even when they're shit, you can't leave or pick another team. It doesn't work like that.

ForeveraBluebird · 19/05/2025 12:45

@SquashedSquid are you having a spelling punctuation and grammar dig, or do you just fancy some pasta .

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Brefugee · 19/05/2025 11:43

ZoggyStirdust · 19/05/2025 11:22

I remember explaining to my daughter just before I took her to her first ever game that once you’d chosen your side that was it. You could never change no matter how bad they got.

i always say it's like the wands in Harry Potter "the wand chooses the wizzard, Harry"

But yes - once you're in, you're in.

ZoggyStirdust · 19/05/2025 11:23

And whilst they’re not my side, I have a soft spot for Wednesday as they were my grandads team. Always hope they do well

ZoggyStirdust · 19/05/2025 11:22

I remember explaining to my daughter just before I took her to her first ever game that once you’d chosen your side that was it. You could never change no matter how bad they got.

DuncinToffee · 19/05/2025 10:24

💙Good luck next season, hope you go back up

ForeveraBluebird · 19/05/2025 10:22

@DuncinToffee , Everton for you maybe, and yes, Cardiff City always.

DuncinToffee · 19/05/2025 10:18

ForeveraBluebird · 19/05/2025 10:13

@namechangeGOT , I’ll miss my trip to you Owls .

Cardiff City?

ForeveraBluebird · 19/05/2025 10:13

@namechangeGOT , I’ll miss my trip to you Owls .

HighLadyofTheNightCourt · 19/05/2025 10:04

Cososom · 19/05/2025 08:36

Some of the ridiculous, sneering comments on this thread have made me determined to take more interest in football next season. I think that as a 50-something lover of Italian opera and Taylor Swift, Michelin stars and McDonald's, David Graeber and Jilly Cooper, etc etc, it would be an interesting new diversion. Something to distract me when I'm a bit bogged down in my PhD, perhaps.

Honestly - 'I would never, ever be friends with someone into football'? And yet I bet you bemoan the 'tribalism' of football, don't you?

Most adults understand that people are complex and, as @murasaki says, can't be put into a box. Others, it seems, don't have that level of insight.

No, no, no ...
You can't possibly be a well rounded, educated, intelligent person AND enjoy football. It's one or the other.

I've just told my DH that he needs to choose the season ticket or the PhD. He can't have both 🤷🏼‍♀️

Hillarious · 19/05/2025 10:03

namechangeGOT · 18/05/2025 19:45

Haha!! My husband and son are Wednesday season ticket holders and take their commitment to the pigs (sorry!) very seriously! There has been no mocking this season, at all, not one bit, I promise!! 👀

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And all this aside, it wouldn’t stop us being friends. If anything, would give us a reason to be friends, and that’s the beauty of football.

ForeveraBluebird · 19/05/2025 10:00

I manage to go and watch my team home and away and never resort to drink or violence. Though the drink might well have helped this season to be fair. A quiet reflective shandy and get ready for new grounds this season .

brunettemic · 19/05/2025 09:56

Because different people like different things…🙄

Brefugee · 19/05/2025 09:39

SquashedSquid · 18/05/2025 23:05

I hate everything about football. The game, the man-babies who play, the ridiculous amounts of money involved, the drinking culture, the violence, the passion for something so ridiculous. I can't believe that grown adults worship it. It does make me judge people, and I would never, ever be friends with someone into football.

I wish people would be passionate about something worthwhile instead of what they put into a ball game.

I have completely changed my mind and will not, now, be renewing my season ticket.

Perhaps you could give us list of approved worthwhile passtimes so I can select one to replace the void that football will leave behind?

CorbyTrouserPress · 19/05/2025 09:12

ACLtrouble · 19/05/2025 02:17

Not being sexist, simply speaking the truth that a far larger proportion of boys and men play football than girls and women. DD is an equestrian and it’s no lie that females vastly outnumber males in the sport. If you think that a fact is sexist then that’s your own issue..

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Of course it’s sexist. You are glad you had a DD because girls don’t like football is completely sexist. By your logic a far larger proportion of women are nurses than men therefore nursing is a profession for women. The world has changed since the 1950’s, you really should try and keep up with it.