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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:

Zhan · 08/05/2017 09:53

YANBU op - it's ridiculous. Can't be doing with all this namby pamby shite and no, I don't cry at sad films either - I save my emotions for real life

BillSykesDog · 08/05/2017 09:58

Given that MN is the home of over emoting and crying at the drop of a hat this thread is ridiculous. I've lost count of the 'crying all morning' and 'sobbing my heart out for hours' threads over a haircut or similar trivia.

I'm not a football fan, but I live near to a big team's stadium. It makes such a difference to the local area economically and the environment and mood in the area if they're doing well. They also do a massive amount for the local area and of course if they're doing well and have more money that increases. I'm not at all interested in the game but even I feel sad if they go down. They're very much part of our community from the secretaries who work there to the first team and the manager. Of course people who follow them closely are going to be upset! A football team is not just the stars, there are a host of other people behind the scene who are all affected and it will affect the whole community around the team.

C0untDucku1a · 08/05/2017 10:07

Exactly. I dont like Football. I Find it boring to watch. Husband supports a football team and was taking great delight in the fall of blackburn rovers until ive pointed out the effect on the economy, people's regular income, local business that benefits from big games... What we need now is good management to bring in people and use the stadium for more things. Elton John is hopefully just the start!

1happyhippie · 08/05/2017 10:08

A house full of football fans here. I have a dd who plays now for a local team as well as her school, we travel to matches locally as well as away matches, miles away.
We love it. Always quite sad when the season comes to an end.
What's so wrong with people being passionate about something they enjoy?
Some people don't get football, I don't get those people! 😉

FallenSky · 08/05/2017 10:09

I save my emotions for real life

You do realise football is real? Not scripted?

JacquesHammer · 08/05/2017 10:10

Can't be doing with all this namby pamby shite

How unpleasant you are.

I can't be doing with all this judging people shite for liking different things but hey

derxa · 08/05/2017 10:13

Given that MN is the home of over emoting and crying at the drop of a hat this thread is ridiculous Yes there's a current massive thread about someone who didn't get a big enough breakfast.

zukiecat · 08/05/2017 10:15

I hate football, but I love horses and dressage

I sobbed when Charlotte and Blueberry (Valegro) won their gold in Rio, I sobbed when Valegro retired in December

I also cried when Natasha Baker's horse JP (Cabral) had to be put down in February

People might tell me to get a life, but everyone has something they're passionate about

Live and Let Live

SillyLittleBiscuit · 08/05/2017 10:21

I've cried many times over football - happy and sad tears. I've been to more than 1000 games in my life time. It's something my dad and I do together and have done for as long as I can remember. My dad's 74 now and I'll never regret a minute of the time I spent with him sharing the highs and lows of supporting our distinctly average (bless them) team.

TheFaerieQueene · 08/05/2017 10:23

Crying about a bunch of millionaires who kick a ball around a field, not doing as well as they should? I can't imagine why anyone would.

Karanka · 08/05/2017 10:24

I save my emotions for real life

That sounds utterly miserable. You don't laugh at a comedy then, or get excited by reading/watching a thriller, or get scared by a horror film?

JacquesHammer · 08/05/2017 10:28

I can't imagine why anyone would

And yet it has been explained on thread. Countless times

JacquesHammer · 08/05/2017 10:28

I wonder if its just snobbery surrounding football.

There was thousands of images of people crying when England RU won the World Cup.....or is that ok because RU is a naice sport?

Zhan · 08/05/2017 10:31

No I don't get scared at a horror film, I love watching them but why would they scare me when they're not real??

Yes football is "real" but it's a game at the end of the day. It's like crying because you lost at monopoly.

derxa · 08/05/2017 10:31

Crying about a bunch of millionaires They're only millionaires because people want to pay to see them. What about these millionaires who work on the BBC. We have no choice but to pay for them.

DeleteOrDecay · 08/05/2017 10:43

Yes football is "real" but it's a game at the end of the day. It's like crying because you lost at monopoly.

Do you apply this logic to every sport or just football?

whathappenedtoshosh · 08/05/2017 10:50

My husband and I come from a fairly small town with a small football club. But that club is over 100 years old and has been at the heart of the town since then. At home every supporter has their own problems and celebrations. But the club is something that all the supporters have followed together since childhood, and for generations. Yes the players come and go, but it's the same club. So why shouldn't something that brings a bit of joy to someone's life also bring them some tears whether happy or sad ones?

We support Andy Murray too Op, but he's one man who's got millions behind him, so how is supporting him any different to other 'rich' footballers? .

Our local team is pretty skint, but the fans continue to pay to see them. The players go to school sports days, and are very active in the community. And most of us have got memories of being with our parents celebrating cup wins growing up. In the town centre watching the players bus carrying the cup! My grandad dad went to nearly every home game for over 70 years. So yes I have shed a little tear when there's been a big win or loss.

The worlds got so much misery, it's disheartening to hear people slating others for finding a bit of joy!

SillyLittleBiscuit · 08/05/2017 10:52

Are we allowed to be upset at the non millionaire football players not being as good as we'd hoped? The ones who earn about £350 a week?

JacquesHammer · 08/05/2017 10:54

Yes football is "real" but it's a game at the end of the day. It's like crying because you lost at monopoly

Show me a game of monopoly that has effects on the local economy....

I find it really astonishing that people find it so hard to grasp why things like sport matter so much to people. Football is probably one of the very few sports left that is really and truly open to anyone of any background.

Notso · 08/05/2017 11:00

While I'd never say it to DH I sometimes get a bit jealous of his passion for football. It's made him some fantastic friends and provided him with some brilliant holidays.
I've tried to like it but I just don't care about any sport. DH could watch tortoises playing tiddlywinks and be enthusiastic about it. DC3 and 4 are getting into football and I worry that they'll get into a team and I'll have to try and watch them. At training some parents drone on and on about try outs for blah team and scouts, I just glaze over.

BlueDaBaDee · 08/05/2017 11:07

I cried when my home team got promoted to the premiership a couple of weeks ago, and I don't even like football all the videos of the players celebrating and partying with the fans after just made me feel all emotional and proud (clearly pregnant )

BackforGood · 08/05/2017 11:35

On a weekly (or more) basis, people post on here... "I'm sitting here in tears because........." for 101 different reasons. Most of them I can't relate to at all - I can't understand why a grown person would be in tears at whatever situation they then describe, however, being a fully functioning, neuro typical person who has something called empathy, I wouldn't be so rude as to ridicule them on here or in RL. 99% of the time their situation isn't something that would move me to tears, but it has, for whatever reason evoked that response in them, so why on earth would anyone be so nasty as to ridicule them for it ??

TheStoic · 08/05/2017 11:38

I find passion very attractive, for the most part. Even if the object of that passion doesn't interest me.

I think it's very sad when people can't understand the passion of others.

BitOutOfPractice · 08/05/2017 11:44

JacquesHammer I think the snobbery is very much part of the attitude to football on MN. Plus a bit of sexism thrown in since football is seen as a man's thing (clearly it's not since I am a massive football fan and I own my own vagina but that's how it's often perceived). Plus. I think, an inability to understand that not everybody finds the same things passion-inducing (lack of empathy?)

And to those that say that football fans should be passionate about something "important" well I am passionate about lots of things - politics, history, cooking (food!), Bryan Ferry...lots of things. I'm multi-faceted like most people.

JacquesHammer · 08/05/2017 11:50

BitOut - absolutely. I genuinely don't understand how people can't see its uplifting! In a stadium, lots of fans singing, the pride, the passion. Amazing

I don't get to nearly enough rugby league matches these days and I really miss the community experience

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