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Anybody else dislike football.

202 replies

Imtoooldforallthis · 04/05/2024 11:36

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?

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dizzydizzydizzy · 04/05/2024 23:41

Hate all team sports. Love tennis, gymnastics, athletics, swimming.

Hazelnutwhirl · 04/05/2024 23:44

Can’t stand it, too much hype and it’s on all the time and with women’s football it’s gotten ten times worse.

PassingStranger · 05/05/2024 00:17

Houseplanter · 04/05/2024 21:46

Exactly this

I loathe it.

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Stereotype, not all fans are yobs, far from it. It's a sport that attracts all ages all around the world.

ilovesooty · 05/05/2024 00:23

ElaineMBenes · 04/05/2024 13:19

A game for yobs (fans)

Lazy stereotyping

Absolutely. I come from a family of football lovers and have watched matches since I was a child . None of us are or were yobs. I've had long term relationships with football lovers who weren't yobs. My friend and her husband are season ticket holders. Not yobs. I've been to the match with her today and sat with regular attendees and season ticket holders. Not yobs.

PassingStranger · 05/05/2024 00:25

ilovesooty · 05/05/2024 00:23

Absolutely. I come from a family of football lovers and have watched matches since I was a child . None of us are or were yobs. I've had long term relationships with football lovers who weren't yobs. My friend and her husband are season ticket holders. Not yobs. I've been to the match with her today and sat with regular attendees and season ticket holders. Not yobs.

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Exactly, shows what the poster knows about football fans. Nothing.

PassingStranger · 05/05/2024 00:27

Hazelnutwhirl · 04/05/2024 23:44

Can’t stand it, too much hype and it’s on all the time and with women’s football it’s gotten ten times worse.

Why should only men play sport then?

That's very old fashioned now.

mrlistersgelfbride · 05/05/2024 00:29

Football is always on in my house. I watched it as a child, so it doesn't bother me, I can get quite into it and I actually like MOTD aswell.
What I can't stand however, is the long days out and drinking sessions that surrounds football matches.
For example , my partner can't just go to watch a football match for 3pm, he has to be out drinking by midday and comes home late,l after the match, is hungover all the next day and opts out of doing things with our daughter because of it. Often whole weekends are lost.
The actual football is fine, the behaviour that often goes with it is not!

Timeforanotheraliasnow · 05/05/2024 00:33

Pathetic game. Pathetic players earn far too much money, pathetic fans get so worked up over nothing. Grounds are a waste of good building land. My DH hates it as much as me, I couldn't be with him otherwise!

QueenAnn · 05/05/2024 00:37

My dad played for Manchester United many years ago and him and my db were absolutely obsessed with football. It dominated my childhood, everything revolved around football. It ruled our lives. Weekends were a nightmare but there were also midweek matches and training etc I absolutely hated it. If they weren't playing it they were watching it on TV. I was bored out of my mind when I was dragged along to matches. My whole family was obsessed with it. My dh is a football fan but nothing like my family and he understands how much I hate it and why and if it's on TV he'll go upstairs and watch it as he knows I dislike it so much.

steff13 · 05/05/2024 00:37

Imtoooldforallthis · 04/05/2024 12:08

The drinking isn't an issue, it's just were on holiday everyone's in a good mood and the drinks ate flowing, if I don't go ill look like a real misery guts and then ill have a go at him for being drunk when I'm sober.

Go do something you want to do. You could also choose not to have a go at him for being drunk, of the drinking isn't a problem.

Costacoffeeplease · 05/05/2024 01:03

Loathe it and its man child supporters with a passion

I wouldn’t have a relationship with a football supporter never mind marry one

Catsmere · 05/05/2024 01:11

Different code - Australian Rules vs what's called soccer here - but I loathe it. Always have. The obsession with football in this country bores me to tears, and the recurring sexual scandals around abusive players only reinforces my dislike. The crowds aren't any better, either. Always had to avoid the trains after matches.

Hazelnutwhirl · 05/05/2024 04:35

PassingStranger · 05/05/2024 00:27

Why should only men play sport then?

That's very old fashioned now.

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Nothing wrong with women playing football, but now there is even more football on the tv and news. I don’t have anything against football as a sport it’s just the hype that surrounds it, like it’s the only sport in the world.

Shoxfordian · 05/05/2024 05:00

My dad was always into football, it gets in the way of plans at the weekend, if his team lose then he's in a mood, it's just annoying. My dh only likes international rugby really, much less disruptive apart from the six nations but even then he doesn't want to watch every match. Why did you sign up for this op?

Drawny · 05/05/2024 06:04

Re the sex scandals. I know a pro rugby player who has played for his country. He told me that rugby players are far far worse than footballers but it goes under the radar. Except for Joe Westerman of course.

Catsmere · 05/05/2024 06:13

@Drawny I don't doubt they're appalling in every code. Yeah, it's what they get away with.

bloodyplumbing · 05/05/2024 06:37

User135644 · 04/05/2024 12:32

A game for yobs (fans) and cheats (players) and greedy wankers (the money men).

All the fans are yobs? 🤔

Amx · 05/05/2024 06:39

The superiority of people on this thread is laughable.

Can't wait til the Euros, because it's cooooooming homeeeeeeee ⚽️

Jifmicroliquid · 05/05/2024 06:41

I hate everything about it- the game itself, the noise of the crowds, some of the people it attracts, the ridiculous amount of money the players get and why it has to take over everything when it’s on.

bloodyplumbing · 05/05/2024 06:42

Amx · 05/05/2024 06:39

The superiority of people on this thread is laughable.

Can't wait til the Euros, because it's cooooooming homeeeeeeee ⚽️

🙌

Talkamongstyourselves · 05/05/2024 08:16

Can't stand it. All that nonsense after a player has scored a goal is pathetic IMO. They've literally just done the job they're paid to do. I've yet to see the bin men running up to each other congratulating their colleagues for tipping the recycling into the lorry.

ElaineMBenes · 05/05/2024 08:22

All the fans are yobs? 🤔

Apparently. I must tell the professor I share an office with as he's a season ticket holder and travels all over to away games but I'm not sure he got the 'yob' memo 🤷🏼‍♀️

ElaineMBenes · 05/05/2024 08:25

Costacoffeeplease · 05/05/2024 01:03

Loathe it and its man child supporters with a passion

I wouldn’t have a relationship with a football supporter never mind marry one

How close minded. You may have missed out on meeting some wonderful men.

thevegetablesoup · 05/05/2024 08:27

ElaineMBenes · 05/05/2024 08:22

All the fans are yobs? 🤔

Apparently. I must tell the professor I share an office with as he's a season ticket holder and travels all over to away games but I'm not sure he got the 'yob' memo 🤷🏼‍♀️

Quite. I'm a senior professional with a first class literature degree. My interests include wildlife and nature, needlework and history. But because I'm also a football fan I'm a "yob".

So much snobbery, ignorance and reductive stereotyping going on in this thread.

Dargawn · 05/05/2024 08:32

My ex H is literally obsessed with football and he thinks/talks about nothing else.

the only way he can bond with people is over football. It contributed to the downfall of our marriage as he is just totally boring.

I knew he loved it in his 20s so married him aware but thought he might mature a bit and develop new interests over time but he didn’t and at 50 he’s more obsessed than ever.

i never minded him having his passion and always let him get on with it but it just became obvious that nothing else really mattered to him and so now he lives on his own and watches it during all his free time and only sees our 16 year old son if it involves watching or going to a game and he is quickly losing the ability to bond with our (20yo) DD because she doesn’t like it.

it really is quite sad.