to lol at 'football related sadness'

[TequilaMockingbirdy]

Man on my facebook reckons he needs a day off work because of emotional stress, I said he should have one if he needs it and asked the reason why.

He said the footy results.

he is being deadly serious and saying he's suffering from 'football related sadness' and that he feels so alone and upset, he is crying.

Now I fully understand mental illness having suffered/suffering from it myself... but really?

Maybe a sign of something underlying you may say but I've known him for a good few years and football really does seem to get him down when his team loses!

Anyone else glad they don't have a partner who is obsessed with the football?!

I don't understand this. Unless you've played in the game (or your child!), surely you can't care that deeply about who wins?

I love football and am very passionate about my team, but I'm also very realistic about the importance of it compared to everyday life. But I'm also a very realistic person and it doesn't affect my everyday life, I don't cry at bad results and it doesn't ruin my weekend when they lose, I don't really understand those who let it.

I do however struggle with the hypocrisy of non football fans who mock it for being 'only a game' but will then sit and bawl their eyes out over some stupid tv soap, which is considerably less real than football. Especially as they've known for weeks what will happen in said soap due to the countless number of soap magazines that are available. I hope your partners and husbands laugh at you for this ridiculous behaviour too.

Football doesn't come with warnings, it's unpredictable and can shatter your dreams or lift your spirits within seconds. What is wrong with being passionate about something?

I realise I wrote the same sentence twice there...

Oh but you can. It's a way of life sometimes. My team (Swansea City) was promoted to the Premier League four seasons ago, and the difference it's made here in Swansea as a city is amazing. It's lifted our entire city up, made it a more positive place, brought in many new jobs and on big match days the buzz is electric. See when we win a big game - such as against Chelsea or Man City or Liverpool... the whole city celebrates. It unites us. And when we lose, well.. we all feel it.

I have never cried at a film/soap storyline but don't really get the comparison

To be overly emotionally involved in something as ridiculous as football is just laughable though

Obviously it is... for you.

For others, it's not.

Absolutely - I feel quite sorry for them

I completely agree with Ladymoods. The drama of it all is fabulous and I think people who claim to love the theatre but sneer at football are really missing a trick. This weekend's Soccer Saturday - when the Championship promotion and play-offs were settled - was the best tv I have seen in ages.

I am a rugby fan not football but although a day off work is ott it is understandable when you are so emotionally invested in something if the result goes wrong it is tough

It's getting a bit surreal now - comparing football and theatre!! Really?? Hilarious

That's exactly what I mean about sneering.

My nerves are shot to smithereens . We need one point from our last two games. YABU.

Floisme - Soccer Saturday is one of my fave programmes .

I really don't get it. It's a game. I get people enjoy playing it, I get people enjoy watching it but some people have no sense of proportion about it.

Fortunately DH and DSs feel the same so it's rarely on in our house.

I don't sorry for you costa and but I do feel sorry for anyone in your life whose interests you clearly believe are beneath you, having to put up with your sneering.

I don't really understand why people take such pleasure in disliking it though. You don't like it, so what? I don't like a lot of things so I don't bother getting involved in discussions about them or mock people who do like them. What a horribly disrespectful person you are.

Yes sneering is a really good description of how I feel about it, thank you - you can have an interest, a hobby, play sport for fun/health reasons - all great

To allow a football match result to affect the rest of your life/relationships/work is just ridiculous and pathetic - I really don't understand it and would not indulge that behaviour or respect someone who would behave like that

It's fabulous isn't it KenDoddsDadsDog? I watch it with my 15-year old son (and sometimes I even get to snuggle him ).

Of course there are more important things in life but I don't understand why people who don't get it feel the need to be sneery.

My DH likes golf - is away on a golf holiday at the moment, and watches it on tv most weekends, I go to another room and do something else - thats fine. He doesn't go into a decline and burst into tears if his favourite player loses - or even if Europe lose the Ryder Cup - he switches off the tv and gets on with life - that's the healthy response

I have F.R.S. today and I don't want to go to work. I want to spend all day in bed with ice cream and cosmic ordering a couple of freak football matches.
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Hello Miaow ! I'm hoping we don't go to the last game , knowing Sunderland it will be last minute of last game.