Anybody else dislike football.

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I know iabu so please don't tell me so. But I'm struggling with my husbands love of watching football. I know its really popular but I just hate the mob mentality around watching it. I'm also a bit envious that he has this passion and that he can literally talk to anyone anywhere. We are currently abroad and there is a big match on that is shown in most bars, we have arranged to meet his friends and it will be all about the football, even the wives don't seem to mind it. I feel very out of it. Does anyone else feel the same?

Same.

I'm not attracted to football fans, it would be one of many, many things that would make me choose not to date a man.

Is your marriage otherwise fun and happy, OP?

Loathe it. DH is a season ticket holder. I can't believe a grown adult thinks any club is about the fans. I lean more to User135644 view. The amount of time given to it and the crap spouted about it on TV is a good way of keeping the masses pacified. I cannot comprehend why a football item should ever be the lead on a main news programme.

DS played for a team for a couple of years aged 7-9. The football parents were quite happy to shout at the ref and the children. Thankfully he showed interest in other sports so the football was dropped.

I absolutely love it. I've been a season ticket holder at my favourite club for 45 years. I've already bought my season ticket for next year. I'm chatting on the forums about who we might sign in the close season and planning my away trips and loutish behaviour 😝

Am I pathetic or stupid (two words I've picked up on from previous posts)? Honestly? No more so than the majority of MN is for fretting over whether they can put cheese strings in the kids' lunch boxes or what dress to wear for a social engagement at the weekend.

The world don't move to the beat of just one drum 😊

I auditioned every single man I ever dated for their position on football, and ditched anyone who was interested in it. It’s a dealbreaker for me. Just the sound of that mindless roar irritates the living shit out of me. Not just football, either — I feel similarly about rugby or other team sports, but only football seems to have such a stranglehold.

Yup. Hate it. So annoying it takes priority on tv for hours at a time. Tomorrow there’s F1 and football so double the fun!

Am I pathetic or stupid (two words I've picked up on from previous posts)? Honestly? No more so than the majority of MN is for fretting over whether they can put cheese strings in the kids' lunch boxes or what dress to wear for a social engagement at the weekend.

I don't think anyone's claiming that all people who like football are stupid or pathetic. How on earth is the fact that people discuss being concerned about feeding their children a healthy diet in any way comparable to the negative aspects of football culture which people are pointing out?!

Zero, zero interest. I am not a team sports player or fan. Boring organised fun involving a lot of undesirable stuff such as racism, gambling, misogyny, modern slavery.

I chose a DP with minimal interest (might check scores in passing when his country is playing in world cup).

You're in a different land. Go and explore for the day. Let them be dull and get pissed. Have a nice lunch, afternoon and dinner yourself

Oh, that's exactly what some posters were claiming.

I'm merely suggesting that children, cheese strings and frocks don't interest me. But I've held back from calling folk who are fascinated with such topics, pathetic or stupid.

Me. I'm the same but luckily my other half is also not bothered. We are only ever bothered by our own workouts and results.

A game for yobs (fans)

Lazy stereotyping

No interest at all. Luckily neither has dh. There's a big match on currently for our city.

I'm also a bit envious that he has this passion and that he can literally talk to anyone anywhere

This comes across poorly to me. I can’t imagine being so annoyed that my partner enjoys something as normal as football and does so in a perfectly normal way. If you substituted football for any other hobby and switched gender roles, people would see it as the start of some toxic behaviour.

I would say many, many women dislike football op. I live near a stadium and on match day it’s crawling with thousands of men. The proportion of women who are interested enough to go and watch it based on many years observation is around 3-5% and if you stand in the terraces, you can see why. Yobby aggressive chanting, violent threats when the game doesn’t go their way, lots of drinking and drugs. Not nice.

YANBU.

I think a breezy, "I'm not interested, hope it goes well, I'm off to do X, don't forget to eat, see you later dear" is perfectly acceptable.
Sitting watching an activity you don't like and feeling forced to join in a boozy afternoon alongside is not on.

Have no interest, thankfully neither does DH. Wouldn't mind the sport per se but hate the mentality of it, the hostility and threatening behaviours. It's a game? Why can rugby fans sit together in stadia and even drink at the match and football can be like a flipping war zone. I know it's not the case for all fans, I'm not stupid but a few ruin it for everyone.

I've been to one football match in my life. My only recollection is that of the home crowd informing the visitors that they unwashed Northern domestic abusers, through the medium of song. I don't see the appeal. Luckily DS has shown no interest.

I am indifferent to football itself. What I really can't stand is that men use football as justification for all sorts of antisocial, irresponsible and vile behaviour. Drinking more than they can handle, antisocial behaviour, racist and offensive language, violence and even sexual assault.

Yes, yes I know it's "Not All Men" before anyone starts. But it is way too many men.

Bloody hell, this posts drips with misogyny. There's a massive difference between sports obsessives and people who worry about clothes , or what ever you claimed- what a ridiculous, pointless comparison

Am I pathetic or stupid (two words I've picked up on from previous posts)? Honestly? No more so than the majority of MN is for fretting over whether they can put cheese strings in the kids' lunch boxes or what dress to wear for a social engagement at the weekend.

I don't think you're pathetic or stupid for liking football. I do think the insinuation that women who don't like football are obsessed with dresses and what to put in their kids lunch boxes is both pathetic and stupid.

I hate football - in fact I hate all sport if I am honest. Football is by far the worst though.

All for the reasons pps have said. I've never actually watched a whole match. I just can't stand it. The awful shrieking and yelling from the commentary and that ridiculous 'celebrating' thing. And don't get me started on the obscene salaries.

Also why let it go on so long? I would just get each team to line up and try and get the ball in the goal like they do at the end of some matches.

I love it. Typed a long post but lost it. Attending live is totally different from watching on TV. Even when it's my team on TV, I find it difficult to get too enthusiastic but attending live is so much better.

Oh god yes. It isn't just the game. I doubt there is anyone on earth more boring than a professional footballer. Have you ever heard one interviewed? Jesus, I'd rather talk to a plank of wood – just ignorant, charmless, surly, arrogant little oafs. Listening to them trying to string a sentence together is painful.

I've heard they think very highly of you too 🙄

For years I used to be a home and away supporter of a lower league Scottish football club. The club was quite unusual in that it had a high percentage of women and family support. So on the supporters bus there was a section of the support called " the drinkers" - for obvious reasons - who sat at the back. They didn't cause the rest of us any bother and we co existed quite amicably.
I still like going to community based football matches. As an older woman I'm quite comfortable going down to the town football ground by myself to watch games. Although there is a social club there are loads of children at the match and it's a really nice atmosphere.
BUT I cannot stand premier league/ top flight football. Never even watch it on the TV. No interest in going to a game. Can't stand the behaviour of the players - on or off the pitch- or the supporters. Can't stand the pundits .

Im not fussed , but have a keen interest when certain matches are on,

Can't understand why men get so worked up over it and get angry. Its only a bloody game