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Crying because your team has been relegated (football)

314 replies

TinfoilHattie · 07/05/2017 22:25

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?

OP posts:
ilovesooty · 07/05/2017 22:44

Fancy threatening your husband with divorce if he's ever seen getting emotional on TV about football. Hmm

DorisMcSweeney · 07/05/2017 22:44

One of life's greatest pleasures is laughing at football fans crying when their team loses or is relegated.

Sparklingbrook · 07/05/2017 22:55
Hmm
alltouchedout · 07/05/2017 22:59

I've cried over a snooker match Blush. I was 42 weeks pregnant at the time and feeling rather strange but yabu, OP. Sometimes it just gets you.

CabbagePatchKid91 · 07/05/2017 23:02

I've seen my DH cry three times. Once when Chelsea won the champions league, when the patriots won Super Bowl 49 (I was crying with him) and when DD was born.
Sport is very emotional if you care about it. I think if you don't support a team it is hard to see why people care so much about it. Life would be boring if you didn't care about anything though.

ashtrayheart · 07/05/2017 23:04

I find it laughable too. I get supporting a team but anything beyond that and I can't help being Hmm .

melj1213 · 07/05/2017 23:05

YABVVU

I love football and it is my one real passion, I have made friends for life through football and it is something I'm invested in and yes, have spent a lot of money on over the years ... why shouldn't I get emotional when my team does something to get emotional about?

Costacoffeeplease · 07/05/2017 23:06

One of life's greatest pleasures is laughing at football fans crying when their team loses or is relegated.

Smile

Following a football team to that extent is just ridiculous and therefore worthy of ridicule in anyone over about 12

Sparklingbrook · 07/05/2017 23:06
Hmm
PurpleDaisies · 07/05/2017 23:09

Following a football team to that extent is just ridiculous and therefore worthy of ridicule in anyone over about 12

I'm sure there are things about your life people would find ridiculous. What's wrong with being a football fan?

honeypooh2017 · 07/05/2017 23:09

I've cried over my football team (Blackpool) when we won the playoffs at Wembley and were promoted to the premier league, I cried when we were relegated the next season and I've cried because of the mess the owners have made of the club and the fact it had lead to boycotts, protests and fans being sued. I've boycotted because of he owners and I miss my football and how much we enjoyed going as a family

Costacoffeeplease · 07/05/2017 23:16

What's wrong with being a football fan?

Where to start? Confused

Sparklingbrook · 07/05/2017 23:18

It's just snobbery because it's football. I bet it would be ok to cry if Andy Murray lost in the final at Wimbledon. Hmm

Lala241280 · 07/05/2017 23:20

Football or any other sport might not be a passion in your home with your family but is in others

God forbid you cry at anything that is important to you

ladymariner · 07/05/2017 23:21

I've followed my team through thick and thin all my life, I was taken to watch as a child and it went from there, and I've cried many times....we've been relegated, promoted, relegated, dropped out the league, got back in again and so it goes on, and anyone laughing at me can go and fuck themselves....they will never understand and I don't speak fuckwit so I wouldn't be able to explain in a way they'd understand......

ladymariner · 07/05/2017 23:24

And I secretly judge people who don't like any sport with the utmost suspicion..... I consider them soulless. Flame away Football Grin

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 07/05/2017 23:26

I cried at Wembley a few weeks ago when we won a cup final. I cried the following week when we were relegated. Football does that to you.

ladymariner · 07/05/2017 23:26

Come on then costa lets hear your reasons..... Confused

ashtrayheart · 07/05/2017 23:28

Happily soulless then! I can watch any child of mine take part in a sport and be interested but people I don't know? Nah.

BlandWallpaper · 07/05/2017 23:29

My DH is a massive football, cricket and rugby fan - I don't think he crys over games but he does other things that I consider a bit daft such as traveling all over the world just to watch games. He is usually a really sensible bloke 😂

I don't know if there is any difference between:
Crying at footie
Crying when someone you admire wins a medal in the olympics
Crying at the opera
Crying at movies
Crying over books

I'm not a cryer but I choked up watching a film earlier this evening. It was a crap one too 😂

Witchend · 07/05/2017 23:33

"If England don't score soon it will be the greatest tragedy of all time" wasn't that said by some commentator?

scottishdiem · 07/05/2017 23:38

Gosh. I never knew some women had no emotional investment or response in or to anything.

Not crying at anything like films, books, TV series?

ashtrayheart · 07/05/2017 23:43

I might cry at a film or a book because it involves someone dying or an emotional reunion or illness? Not kicking a ball around.

StillHungryy · 07/05/2017 23:45

YABU, I don't see what the issue with football is. People are allowed to cry at films, celebrity deaths or even music bands splitting up and the interaction especially before social media was far more passive than football was, going to the cinema once or twice a year to watch X in a certain film or listening to Y's music, or a concert once in a blue moon,whilst literally millions of football fans go to watch their team weekly through travelling to the stadium or on TV, and the social interaction through it, and now with social media football fans can talk about it and have a laugh etc daily and learn and connect so much more deeply with the players.

For me personally I grew up with it, going to games with family, interacting with friends, throughout my life when I could at school I would do my work on my team( which at university especially meant I got a lot better understanding of the running of the club, as I spoke to many senior people within the club) and throughout my anxiety and depression where I've been unable to work I haven't been able to see my team but to given me something to look forward to at the weekend or midweek, " football twitter" is often the only interaction I get with people if I don't post on MN as in real life I can go months without getting a text etc from my " friends" even if I try to get in contact with them. It may sound stupid to you but football has been the one constant in my life to give me joy and something to look forward to. And whilst relegation may not seem that much it's a 9 month battle trying to avoid it generally so it builds up, if I supported a team that got relegated it would essentially mean there would be almost 0 coverage so Id lose a lot of joy in my life.

RusholmeRuffian · 07/05/2017 23:45

I've cried at football many times. I have a life thanks. Just because you don't get it doesn't mean you have to look down on others. People cry at all sorts of things that I don't get but I don't think anything less of them.