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?

Different things are important to different people. Personally I think it must be q miserable life not to experience the camaraderie and highs and lows of supporting football. Judging people for their reaction to something you've never tried to understand is downright unpleasant imo.

YABU. Football is amazing. And being relegated to League One is tough - very few matches are televised, and it's so hard to get out again. A lot of the emotion is feeling let down by the owners and players.

As for "arrogant pricks", some of these players came from abject poverty and have been able to change lives in their home towns, donating to up to half their salary to charities.

What do people mean by "crying"? A, tear in the eye? If so, people cry at things far more trivial.

Or do you mean full on sobbing?

mumbod , I don't suppose you have seen what Sunderland and many other football clubs are doing for one of their supporters, a terminally ill 5 year old.

Football is one of the few remaining sports where poor people still have the opportunity to reach the top. Surely that's a good thing?

Some of them struggle to deal with the fame and the money when it comes and their old "friends" are very often instrumental in that. Many of these "arrogant pricks" are suffering with mental health issues that would elicit nothing but sympathy on MN if they made their money in a more MC way or had the privilege of a MC upbringing/education.

Or do you mean full on sobbing?

Based on what I saw on the 10 o'clock news last night, it was full on sobbing. They had pictures of the players sitting on the pitch looking dejected, and the fans wailing in the stands.

People who get that involved in sport either need something worthwhile in their lives or they're just a bit thick

Nice... Nothing like a bit of snobbery first thing in the morning.

My team stayed up yesterday at the expense of Blackburn. I can totally understand why their fans are upset. It's about more than what happens on the pitch. The things that have been going on behind the scenes at that club are partly to blame for the clubs downfall. It's frustrating for both fans and players especially as it's something they can't control.

Delete and others have saud what i haf come in ti say.
The Venky's have destroyed Jack Walker's legacy.
This us what is upsetting 'uncke' Jack was a lical bloke who put his heart and soul in ti the club. The Venky's bought it as a commidity and have drained and destroyed it.

Its not just about losing games!

So OP, you haven't let on whether you cry at movies or books and what you think of people that do?

Here's that arrogant prick Jermain Defoe leading England out onto the pitch with a terminally ill 5 year old. He also visits him in hospital. How arrogant is that?

Relegation can ruin a football club. Players leave, investors don't want to invest, managers get sacked, non loyal fans don't go anymore. Then it can be very difficult to get promotion.

Dh rarely cries. Our wedding day he shed a tear, the birth of dd and his grandads funeral other than that nothing.

But when it comes to football! That's a whole other story. He full on sobbed quite a few years back when his team got relegated. I mean snot everywhere, full on howling.
He then also cried his heart out when they won promotion 2 years later.

I get it. It's his passion, his been going for 30 years I didn't judge him.

The same way I don't judge the hundreds of fans who cried when Michael Jackson died, or GEORGE Michael.

I blubbed at everything, every Disney film, every sad song, every romantic ending. None of that is real.

Omg i cry at childrens films so often now. I watched sing yesterday snd was so glad nobody was made an orphan. Such a refreshing change.

I cried all day the premier of the last Harry Potter film. Most people would think me mad Football not my thing but to some it is.

I don't understand it personally. I have three huge football fans in this house though who get very passionate and emotional.

It means the world to them. Me and dh can't stand football but we hear about it all the time. I am glad they have something they are so passionate about. The older one said he cried at a match yesterday. I thought it was lovely.

YABU.

It wouldnt surprise me if it turned out to ge a money laundering methd. As, what the venkys have done to the club does make finacial sense. Do billionaire businessmen make poor business decision after poor business decision?

There have been local businessmen who have offered to buy the club but the venkys refuse. Why?

Our ex-owner got done for money laundering in Hong Kong and spent a lot of his tenure in prison (you can probably guess who my team is now) so yes I wouldn't be surprised if that's what's happening at Blackburn.

The fit and proper persons test clearly isn't fit for purpose. It annoys me because if a big club like Man Utd hasd owners like that I doubt the FA would just stand by and allow it to happen. It's always the medium/smaller clubs that suffer at the hands of these bastards.

What a nasty thread. People get emotional over all sorts of things. Lots of things that people cry about I just don't get but I would never take the piss out of them for it.

I've cried multiple times over football. One of which was when Wimbledon were moved to Milton Keynes and renamed MK Dons. I used to go week in week out with my dad. So for those saying "your team will still be there next season" you're wrong. Sometimes they're not. Read up on the creation and rise of AFC Wimbledon. I cried again last year at Wembley when they were promoted to League One.

I cried when Chelsea won the Champions League. In fact, watching that CL season recap on YouTube makes me well up even now.

I cry (well, not so much anymore as I'm always expecting it) when England get knocked out of tournaments.

DS has ASD and prefers to be alone. Getting him to spend time with us as a family is difficult to say the least. Unless football is on. He sits with us, jumps around the room if we score, shouts at the TV and we have a lovely time. Football brings people together.

How would you like it, op, if someone took something you really enjoyed in life and ridiculed you for liking it? Called you thick or an idiot? Unless of course you don't like anything in life. In which case, that's quite sad don't you think?

It's pathetic it really is. If only people could get that passionate about important stuff.
Mind you, that's what these things are handy for, keeping the masses preoccupied.

It's pathetic it really is. If only people could get that passionate about important stuff

It's pathetic it really is. If only people understood that being passionate about sports and about other things isn't mutually exclusive.

I must admit I question the intelligence of people who can't work that out

Question away, tis good to keep an open mind.

You mean like you did Light 😂

Not so much questioning anymore as confirmed

arrogant overpaid prick

And there it is - nobody provokes seething jealousy these days like footballers.

It's pathetic it really is. If only people could get that passionate about important stuff.

It's pathetic that some people are so closed minded that they can't grasp the fact that football and 'important stuff' aren't mutually exclusive and that it's perfectly possible to be passionate about more than one thing at the same time.

I am a huge sports fan - in fact part of my degree was sports based.

I do question why football seems to be open-season for sneering?

It isn't as simple as mocking that grown adults are crying over men running around on a pitch - it is everything that represents, the tribalism, the sense of community, the aspiration.

I am more a rugby league fan but shed a small tear for Bradford City yesterday who qualified for the play-off finals. City have had an utterly torrid time historically and small success is exhilerating and failure is heartbreaking.

arrogant overpaid prick is such lazy rhetoric. Of course - as with any walks of life - there will be twats playing football. There are also thousands who aren't and make life a lot more pleasurable for a lot of people notwithstanding their charitable works.

Good grief, really? People here really can't get their head around other people caring about things they don't like?

This is just life 101 isn't it? We're not the same, and that's fine.

There's much wrong with football; but that fans of it get (non-violently) emotional about it is absolutely not one of them.

And no, it doesn't mean they've got otherwise empty lives; there's no exclusivity to caring; I care about my family, my pets, myself, my sport, my hobbies, my future, my next bit of chocolate, my latest Netflix series, my job.

I can, like most people, care about one of them, without diminishing how much I care for any of the others.

Judge them for beating each other, judge them for racist, sexist, homophobic chants, but don't judge them for showing emotion.