For not calling DH to congratulate him on Arsenal winning the Premiership?

Why is he being congratulated on their win? I wouldn't have the patience to indulge this.

God that’s exhausting. Having praise him every time he’s a good boy.

Ugh. This reminds me of DP’s cousin, a Chelsea ‘fan’ who’d never set foot in the ground, let alone pay to go to an actual match.

When Chelsea were buying winning everything, he’d post on SM about how ‘we’ had won some bauble or other. Because obviously at the final whistle, every single one of the Chelsea players was saying ‘Thank fuck for Alan in Bodmin, we’d never have won this thing without him’.

Some football fans are absolutely tedious, and sorry, OP, but your husband seems to be one of them.

Sorry, I'd have laughed at that. What a prat.

@FierceForester90 Hubby has had a proper moan that all his mates messaged him to say congratulations and I didn't even ring

Congratulations for what?

You said he's a fan. Did he actually do anything?

If he was, I don't know, ACTUALLY PLAYING IN THE MATCH, then absolutely yeah, call him.

Unless your husband is Mikel Arteta, he is being ridiculous.

YANBU. At all. DH is a life long Arsenal fan, season ticket holder. I said “that’s nice” and then he spent the next 2 hrs on the phone to his Arsenal mates.
I will “watch” the presentation with him tomorrow (he will watch, I will read my book) but he knows I’m not bothered and he’s fine with that.

If he’s a real fan, would it have hurt you to call him? 🙄

If he hasn’t laboured the point, you’ve perhaps made a mountain out of a molehill.

It sounds pathetic OP (him). As he wasn't actually on the team I'm not sure why he would need to be congratulated. He doesn't even sound like a particularly keen fan. Sounds like he is looking for something to give you a hard time about, I wouldn't be indulging, nor would I be apologising or feeling I needed to make anything up to him, it's just utterly ridiculous.

Never in my life have I thought to call or text the many people in my life who I know support a sports team, when I see that the sports team has won.

God me too. Feeling the need to congratulate someone on a football teams win when the closest they get to it is screaming at the TV? Grounds for divorce!

exactly this! Congratulations should be for when you have personally achieved something. Even expecting you to congratulate him for when a student passes is a bit needy and pathetic, tbh - does he do the same every time you send an email in work or whatever the bare essential of your job is?

But expecting you to congratulate him for something he has absolutely no input in, for a team he isn't even that involved with, is just sad. Does he have nothing better going on in his own actual life?

But it's not his achievement!! He doesn't even go and watch them play.

Congratulate him? That's crackers 🤣

Wow does your DH play for Arsenal OP?

🤣🤣🤣

His mates sound as utterly pathetic as he is if they really did all message him to congratulate him.

Im a bit miffed because if there had been an Arsenal game on that determined it id have kept track of the score.

He works as a Driving Instructor and every single time he has a student pass I text or call
@FierceForester90

Why would you have kept track of the score, you don't sound like a fan yourself?

How do you know when a student of his passes, I'm guessing he tells you, looking for praise?

Your life shouldn't revolve around his interests and his career, and you shouldn't have to worry about filling a football team just so you can congratulate your DH.
Absolute madness.

When Liverpool won the league last year I didn’t speak to my husband for 24 hours and was 10
minutes from locking him and my then 8 year old out the house cos I couldn’t be bothered listening to them!! I am an Everton fan 😂😂😂😂

I think you are all mean spirited. If I knew something good had happened in someones life I'd phone to share their excitement if I remembered.
Id congratulate on a birthday, a pregnancy, someone's grandkids 11+ results, getting a place in the London marathon, someone's cat recovering.
How difficult is it to say 'Wow that's fantastic news, you must be thrilled, I'm so happy for you '
He's meant to be your friend fgs. Someone you want to make extra happy, especially when it would cost you so little!

People who put emotional investment into something they have no control over always seem a bit daft to me.

Didn’t know mikel arteta moonlighted as a driving instructor. Thought the manager post would have paid more tbh

He hasn't done anything to be congratulated over! He just watched.

He's not a footballer who plays for Arsenal so there's nothing to congratulate him on. He's done absolutely zero.

If you were a Taylor Swift fan, say; would he 'congratulate' you if she won an award? Or if your favourite tennis player won a tournament?

How pathetic that he told you he moaned at his mates that you didn't say anything. Surely he can't be this childish in other aspects of your relationship?

Every time I feel down about being single I read posts like this and think 'nope, fine as I am...'

Fancy expecting messages of congratulation because a football team has been successful despite your lack of active contribution. What a childish prick.