Crying because your team has been relegated (football)

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Pics on news of football fans (Blackburn? Blackpool? Something like that) crying because their team has gone down from Division 2 to Division 3.

I mean seriously. AIBU to want to tell them all to get a fecking life?

I'm an Evertonian, I've cried before, especially after a few derby's 😱 it's the way I was brought up, it's the way a lot of people in Liverpool are about football. Nothing beats getting up Saturday mornings, massive fry up with my dad, off the pub for a few then go the Grand Lady to watch our team. Even if they make me wanna lash myself into the Mersey sometimes 😂 Just because you don't get it there's no need to be judgemental to others. Also someone wathing the match once a week isn't really a big deal is it? Why are people so preoccupied with what other people enjoy in life

Supermoon clearly your view is very strongly coloured by one particular individual. But if you'd ever lived with someone training for a triathlon for instance, you'd realise that this is not a problem that's exclusive to football. Everything has to revolve around training (4-5 hour run on a Sunday, 4-5 swims a week, cross training every day plus bike rides etc), not to mention the special diet and obsession with nutrition that affects the whole family. Trust me, it takes over. And it's very dull for everyone else.

Plus, as someone else says, a selfish arse will put their own interests first no matter what those interests are.

Anastasia, it seems like the move to Bramley Docks might be dangerous for you

I've said this to everyone. If we ever actually win a derby again can just see me jumping into the Mersey and floating back home on a crate of beer 😂

YANBU children are being bombed and starving all over the world and people feel devasted by a football team 😴

Anastasia

No issue with the tears it's the violence said supporters I can't abide!

*FROM

Liverpool fan here. Football is a huge part of my family's life. We're season ticket holders and follow LFC everywhere. It's a way of life for us, much like other people have other hobbies.

It's not just Liverpool though, we're football fans in general and watch it most nights, whether it's other premier league teams, European matches or the Championship etc.

Some of the happiest and saddest times of my life have involved Liverpool Football Club. I still cry when I watch the 2005 Champions League Final that we won. I've probably watched Emre Can's overhead kick 20 times since last week!

As one of the PPs said above, for a lot of people on Merseyside, football is everything - if you're not watching it, you're talking about it. There's nothing better than winning a derby and nothing worse than losing one and have to face friends who are Blues!

The sheer prejudice, spite and whataboutery on this thread is breathtaking.

That kind of attitude led to Hillsborough and the cover-up. That people who like football are all just mindless, violent, stupid thugs who can be sneered at by their "betters". It's class hatred and it's disgusting.

I live in a city with a premier league football team and my parents live in a city which saw its team promoted a few years ago .
I told my mum that it is no fun supporting them because every season is a stress until you reach the 40 point mark and can then relax.
Her team is now fighting for survival and she wholeheartedly agrees.
I commiserate with any fans who see their teams go downand understand their tears but am well aware that it is not the end of the world and there are more important things in life

I am a football fan, always have been since I was very little, my family are huge football fans and season ticket holders so it's a way of life.

The team you support is like having a third arm. It goes with you everywhere, you feel every single emotion and every fixture, score, referee decision every week is important.

Losing in a major final or important match or the worst case, being relegated is like someone has died. You feel like you are in mourning and it can last up to a month or so.

To laugh is one of the the worse things you could do and that football fan will always you remember you for that! The ultimate knock down is to say 'never mind', 'there is always next year', 'it's only a match' and 'cheer up'. (and ladies, the 'he's got nice legs' line is the ultimate nonsense).

I have cried a few times - it's really hurts and feels like a humungous loss.

People are mightily passionate about their team so if something happens to them, yep, total devastation, keep away!

I totally get it - you feel everything your team goes through, they are part of you.

People crying LOVE their team, so what? It's great to have a passion for things. Just because you don't 'get' football doesn't mean the ones who do should hide their emotions beacuse of the likes of you!

Myself and DS are avid Chelsea fans and go to all the games
Both of us have cried unashamedly at matches for various reasons, the good and the bad.
Why is it on MN there is so much snobbery regarding football??
We were at the game last night against Middlesborough, sat right next to the away fans. Their team has been relegated, yet they had travelled miles to watch them, and the banter between the fans was for the most part good humoured, with them even singing 'we're going down'!!
If you don't understand people's passion for it fine, but no need to judge others who do!

I'm another of these people who doesn't understand the passion surrounding football but I try not to judgemental about it. Different strokes for different folks and all that. However, my workplace has an awful lot of sports fans and the conversations almost always concern the fortunes of Leeds United, Leeds Rhinos, various motor racing events and boxing matches. I will admit to wry amusement and bemusement at the considerable level of interest my colleagues have in these subjects. But then I have no interest at all in any sport so it largely goes over my head anyway.

You're obviously not a football fan. But myself and my family are and the passion a football fan has for the game is huge. Seeing your team relegated is emotional as is seeing your team getting promoted.
Non football fans wouldn't understand or feel the same.

Non football fans wouldn't understand or feel the same.

Thankfully

Everyone needs an emotional outlet. There's already reasons noted above why football is important. It's not just about it being a sport, it's a cultural activity.

Aliiiii same :-)
Was opposite end of the stadium though but final whistle did feel so sorry for the players and not a team I've followed etc it's seeing players reaction.
The fans however :-D amazing guess they knew it was coming and just enjoyed themselves..way till after the end.

Think it's worse when it goes down to the last day..you see 2 teams playing either one with a chance to stay up..then as results come in seeing the reactions on telly. Get caught up in emotions and nothing wrong with it

Sandsnake another cherries fan here ! My dh and brothers are STH and try to go to a lot of the away games too. I too remember when the club nearly folded. What a fabulous turnaround. UTCIAD.
I think for the Op to mock other people's pleasures is out of order.

Love football and like a pp enjoy watching all Premier/Champions league games. I've been a Spur's fan since a young child and love the atmosphere of the home games. Been an excellent season this year, both top and bottom of the table it and looks like the last relegation place will be decided on the final day, which as a neutral, makes for an exciting last day (sorry Hull/Palace/Swansea fans).

Excellent mummylin! UTCIAD indeed

Ah Costa you're back, with another sarcastic remark, I see.....perhaps you could answer the question I asked you a few pages back, and which you've ignored....why is being a football fan such a bad thing?

Been a football fan ( I have cry like a baby watch my team play at the national stadium a few weeks a go with 40,000 other people.

And then cry again when we relegated for a three time. And a good trip to the pub. Love it or hate it having a good team to support local is normal very good for the whole city. It just a shame I don't understand rugby as the local team are doing fab

Pathetic. And where it's women, even worse. Football marginalises women so much none of us should support the men's game on principal. They absolutely have no lives if they're crying about Football, so I guess you could pity them?