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?

Hate it. I worked as a lunch time supervisor in a primary school and the arguments football caused was unreal. I wished some days they would just ban it.

It's not just men who get worked up about it though.
When I was a regular supporter of a club the match really did affect my mood. If we had a good game it would cheer up my week and if we didn't have a good game it cast a dampner over everything. You do really get caught up in it.

No. I love it. Give it a go instead of trying to fight it. It’s got everything: highs, lows, excitement, good guys, bad guys, thrilling wins, crushing disappointments. It’s a metaphor for life x

I love it. But it's fine to Like different things. I have a wide range of interests and football Is one of them, I totally get how people get obsessed with it because it provides moments of high emotion and drama. But there is a stereotype of a football fan in this thread and as a season ticket holder for my home town club I see a whole range of people go to matches including lots of women.

For me it's about more than the actual football, it's about a connection to a place and community and a sense of belonging. It's a link back to my parents and grandparents and a fun afternoon or evening out with my family. It's a bit like going to church in that you all join together and sing songs and feel Part of something bigger than yourself. good for the soul! But people who hate it will Never get that I suppose.

I can't stand it at all. Even the sound of it sounds so dreary and boring to me. Hate the whole culture of it. Particularly where I live where it's tied up in sectarianism and violence.
Fortunately DH dislikes it also.

Non of my male relatives are the least bit interested in football, neither is my DH ( big plus point for me!)
I remember my older sister advising me to step away from dating any football fans, they are either:
Watching football (tv or live)
Playing football.
Talking about football.

I remember my older sister advising me to step away from dating any football fans, they are either:
Watching football (tv or live)
Playing football.
Talking about football.

What a shame, you might have missed out on meeting some wonderful men.

My season ticket holding football fan of a husband is currently playing chess with our 9 year old. He's not mentioned football once today and hasn't played football in weeks due to me having commitments on the night he usually plays.

Not all football fans are the same.

Can't stand it. I hate cheats and liars.

I really struggle with this. I don’t hate the actual football itself and I can tolerate watching matches but I loathe the culture that goes with it: the aggression and the tribalism. I also find the obsession over the league tables and who is going up and down and who is being bought and transferred so tedious it makes me want to bawl my eyes out.

My OH is into it. We have got to a reasonable compromise now I think. I let him crack on with it and don’t nag him about it as long as he never talks to me about it. When we were first together he would tell me the outcome of various random Premier League matches in painful detail and I started saying “please tell someone who gives a toss”. My rule now is he can tell me if his team won or lost but if the discussion lasts more than 30 seconds I will walk away and also I am prepared to pretend to be interested in your team because it’s your team but I am fucked if I want to know about West Ham beating Everton.

I love it but DH isn't interested (he used to be but got bored of it although he will watch international tournaments). I love watching most sports but football is my favourite. I watch it on TV and go to watch the team I support either on my own or with DS or another friend. But I love it for the skill/ strategy/ tactics/ passion/ talent/ wit/ drama etc. Not the aggressive mob mentality and drunk idiots, can't be doing with any of that.

Me. From a non football following family (v unusual round here). Married a man more into motorsports, but not excessively. Kids have no interest, which makes ds an outcast. But he'll survive.

I did go out with an Everton supporter for a couple of years, so I have a soft spot for the troubled yet loyal fans of Everton!

I'm a season ticket holder for my Championship team, being born 3 streets from the club and having a great grandfather playing for them when they where top flight.

There is a real mix of folk who attend; rich, poor, in good health and bad, many different races and cultures, young, old, and nearly as many women as men.
All are polite and well behaved, and you can hear a pin drop on Remembrance Day and other such days....this is a stadium of 24,000.

Nothing beats the walk down to the match on a crisp winter evening excitedly chatting to my two children about the possible outcome. The buzz of the stadium as the players walk out.

Each to their own I say! 🤍💙🤍

I agree @MyCatsAreFuckwits our experiences are very similar (also a championship club ST holder). Which club do you support?

Nope

@thevegetablesoup

I'm a Preston fan 😁
Who do you support?

I love it.

Don’t love that my hometown team were relegated from the Championship.

Yes me too!

The part that most annoys me is the huge police requirement that football has - unlike any other sport it costs taxpayers an absolute fortune to stop two warring sides killing each other.

This ....

@MyCatsAreFuckwits Sunderland 🫣🤣

@AnneElliott hundreds of football matches take place every week in this country. Fans do not form warring sides who try to kill each other. This is just untrue. The volume of people attending is the reason for the police presence in the same way that any large event such as a big concert, or large weekly protest march, for example would require policing.

I’ve no interest in it. But the thing that’s made me now actively dislike it is how adamant exes have been that I MUST enjoy it. ‘Why can’t you just sit and watch it’ ‘Why can’t you just support my team anyway?’
How about they chill the fuck out and accept no 😂

Yep. Hate it. I have given up caring if anyone thinks i am a misery. I am polite but honest if asked. It actually really pisses me off that people (men) think they can be rude to me just because I dare to not not like what they like.

I despise football! Luckily hubs doesn't like it so I almost never get subjected to it. It's so boring 😴

It's weird how popular it is

Not much of a fan either.

My DH is and watches his team, but I can honestly admit it is one of my annoyances with him. I’m happy when the season is over so I don’t have to hear about it. Unfortunately, he also loves cricket and I dislike that even more.

I somethings think snobbery towards football is thinly veiled snobbery towards working class people. Certainly I feel this sometimes as a supporter of a club in a northern, traditionally working class city.