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Crying because your team has been relegated (football)

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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?

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toffeeboffin · 07/05/2017 23:46

Does anyone know who was actually relegated?

Was it Rovers?

corythatwas · 07/05/2017 23:49

I cried at a beautiful poem the other week. Poet died 300 years ago, so I wouldn't say we were intimately acquainted. I have a better chance of getting to know some footballers, come to think of it.

ladymariner · 07/05/2017 23:51

Yes, Blackburn Rovers. toffee

caz323 · 07/05/2017 23:52

YABU! I'm still in therapy from Euro '96! Still cannot forgive Gareth Southgate.

WankingMonkey · 07/05/2017 23:52

My dad was gearing up for a Sunderland relegation earlier this week so I think possibly them

WankingMonkey · 07/05/2017 23:52

or not...

BackforGood · 07/05/2017 23:55

YABVU.
Perhaps you need to try connecting emotionally with something yourself?
There is no rule to say you can only feel emotion if you are personally known to the person - just look at the way people over react to a celebrity dying.

ladymariner · 07/05/2017 23:56

Sunderland were relegated from the Premiership monkey, Rovers went down from the Championship

diamantegal · 07/05/2017 23:57

Yes, Blackburn went down on goal difference. And I'm a Rovers fan and have been for years - it's been an emotional roller-coaster.

I didn't cry but DS did (and he's only a supporter by proxy - they're not his first choice team). You have to understand the emotional highs and lows - at one point they were staying up, then next they were going down. This is a club that came from (sort of) nowhere to win the Premiership. And in the space of 20 years, terrible mismanagement had effectively destroyed them.

I don't expect others to care. But have a bit of respect that people get emotionally involved in different things. I couldn't care less about a weepie film. But I've spent 20+ years of my life following this club - forgive me if for just for today I feel a little self-indulgent and let down by a management team that had no clue. They will almost certainly stay in League One now. A sad end for a once-great club.

StillHungryy · 08/05/2017 00:00

Yeah it's upsetting diamante I kinda miss Blackburn in the premiership but I have some satisfaction In the rather hopeful thought it hopefully annoys Robbie Savage a little

ExplodedCloud · 08/05/2017 00:03

Everybody has something that gets them. I don't see how crying at a sad film which is a made up story is any different to crying at sport.

BitOutOfPractice · 08/05/2017 00:04

Football fans are pretty much open season on mn. It's seen as a "silly boys" eye-roll worthy sort of thing with athe sort of gender stereotyping that gets derided elsewhere thrown in for good measure.

People on mn get emotional about all sorts of stuff. Programmes about musketeers. Parent and child parking. Gina ford. Yet nobody is allowed to give a shit about football because somehow that's pathetic

ladymariner · 08/05/2017 00:05

for you diamante I was rooting for Bristol to score and send Birmingham down and you lot stay up, was listening on 5Live. Know how you feel, my club are down in League 2, we only got back in last year after a long 6 years in the non-league wilderness and when we won promotion at Wembley I sobbed!!

LunaAzul · 08/05/2017 00:05

I cried when my team won the League... tbf before we got money in 2008, we'd always been (in my lifetime) epically shit so I never cried at relegations. Wouldn't knock anyone for crying though.

OdeToAutumn · 08/05/2017 00:06

YABU. People cry for all sorts of reasons which may seem ridiculous to others.

It means a lot to people and it gets very emotional, especially if you're at the game.

My team was one of the 3 teams that could have been relegated today. At one point it was my team that was going down and I had tears in my eyes.

DeleteOrDecay · 08/05/2017 00:20

YABU, I take it you never cry at films, music, tv shows, celeb deaths, bands splitting up or anything else along those lines then?

You don't get to decide what is and isn't important to people. I bet there are things you are interested in and get emotional about that many would think "get a fecking life" about. People in glass houses and all that...

diamantegal · 08/05/2017 00:21

Thanks to those who get it. to those who don't, I don't really care what you think of me.

Although tears in our house were not helped by the fact we support 3 teams between us - they all lost this weekend (and one is Spurs so that's their season over). DS plays for a local team - he lost. And his football coach manages one of the teams in the National League play-off semis - they lost. So not a great football weekend, especially if you're only 8!

IamaBluebird · 08/05/2017 00:37

I was sorry to see Blackburn Rovers go today diamante. So close to safety only makes it worse.

CremeEggThief · 08/05/2017 00:46

YABU. I cried twice the year my granny died. When she died and Roger Federer lost at Wimbledon, 2008. I spent the whole of the next day in bed sulking and with no appetite too.

BeeThirtythree · 08/05/2017 01:12

Opposite in the Bee household today...Blackburn are our rivals!

BeeThirtythree · 08/05/2017 01:22

As for crying about relegation YABU! It is more than just a random team of men playing a silly game...It is seeing young players who are homegrown talent getting to play in a big match, it is seeing my DF and DD sitting watching the match together, it is family history and funny stories...it is about where you come from and where you belong, DH is a Spurs fan, living in the North West, his great GF was a Spurs fan and now DDs are Spurs fans...at 4 my DD cried today as she knows how it feels when the team she plays for loses and how much it meant for Spurs to win today!

PicardsCombOver · 08/05/2017 01:23

I cried when Birmingham beat my team. I was in the stadium watching and it was the first time id been present at a losing match of ours. It was silent 'there's something in my eye' tears but still.
Also cried when Eddie Guerrero died yabu.

OlennasWimple · 08/05/2017 01:31

YABU

Happyfeet1972 · 08/05/2017 01:38

There's something special about football (and probably other sports too) that makes rational emotions go out the window. I have known people where football literally is their life. For those people you talk about, it's quite likely what they spend most weekends doing, maybe for years, and to see it snatched away on goal difference (as I understand from pp) is a horrible way to go. I don't follow football beyond the premiership but a pp talks about Blackburn? in which case this is a team that won the premiership in the 90s so I'm not surprised fans are upset at how far they've fallen.

I have a passing interest in a team, I can't call myself a supporter as don't follow every game but want them to do well...last game I went to I got overly involved and started chants, I was so swept up in the excitement and the crowd atmosphere. Football is such an exciting game if you like it, it really does take you to the highs and lows of emotions in the space of 90 minutes. For those people who have invested years watching a team I can completely understand why they'd be crying.

melj1213 · 08/05/2017 02:01

I have known people where football literally is their life.

Well as the old saying goes, HappyFeet "Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that"

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