To not understand all the obsession with footbaall

[Thomasina79]

Live and let live and I understand people love it, but it’s a mystery to me? DH has been glued to telly today watching Crystal Palace!

Yes, at times I envy people who aren't into football. Must be such an easy life🤣

I don’t get it at all. I find watching any sport tedious. I can understand people wanting to play games but watching them is watching paint dry.

I was so pleased when neither DS had any interest in team games.

I used to feel like that until I married a football mad guy, and then we went on to have two football mad children 🤣

I now go to the football stadium to watch the games with them and I’m singing the songs as loud as everyone else 🤣

I was also transfixed during the Crystal Palace game 🤣

But yeah…. I totally understand the bewilderment! I just couldn’t understand how adults could feel so passionate about a football being kicked around a pitch but I always admired the way it bought grown adults together in sadness or elation! It means an awful, awful lot to many people.

Although I have succumbed to the madness I do get why that madness can be so baffling to others 👍

A game for thugs. The women's game is more civilised.

I could have predicted the snobbery - “vile culture” 😂

There have been some issues at games, recently and historically, but to call the entire culture vile is snobbery at best.

And why would you be glad your child has no interest in team games? You don’t want them to understand why we achieve more when we work together? Bizarre.

I've loved football since I was 8 - watched the 1966 world cup final with my dad and I was completely smitten.

The saying is:
Football is a gentleman’s game played by hooligans; Rugby is a hooligan’s game played by gentlemen

YANBU. I find it boring as hell.

Philistine

My (mens) team is playing their final game at the ground that has been their home since 1892.

If you want to know what it means to the fans, just read the many stories they are telling.

I support one of the clubs in the city where I was born and grew up. They haven't done well for quite some years. I often say "I wish I didn't care."

My 'second team' (because a good friend lets me use her husband's season ticket when he can't go) is Man Utd and going to see them used to be a real pleasure...!

Goodison Park?

it's going to be emotional. Take lots of tissues!

I am not there so will be sniffing in front of the telly

The videos on SM are amazing

I never understood it until my DC started playing for our local club. I now understand why people get excited about it as a game. The whole tribal loyalty to a club thing is biological - it goes back to surviving by staying with the tribe. I don't feel that myself but it's very understandable.

As a West Ham girl I totally get how you’re feeling today.

My DS was at the last game at Upton Park and he had special memories of that night yo last a lifetime - including being caught on BBC cameras singling Bubbles.

Sadly it’s not the same since the move to the new shiny soulless stadium. I hope your new ground is a better place than ours

Can’t bear laddish football culture. It’s gross. And imagine caring about 11 millionaire strangers so much? I can’t comprehend. People feel such a need to ‘belong,’ it’s low self esteem.

I bet whatever your interests are can also be whittled down to a cynical one liner too.

I went to Upton Park in as an away LFC fan (we weren't good then - I think we lost) and it was a brilliant stadium.

Yanbu. It's a really slow boring game for the most part.

I always think there’s a little bit of snobbery when it comes to people liking football. It’s probably seen as a bit of a working class, pub dwellers game.

Indeed.. and what is wrong with that anyway?

The snobbery towards football on MN is ridiculous.

Huuuuuuuge football fan here. I actually couldn't be married to a man who doesn't love it as much as me. We all support our local (rubbish) team but all of us support different big teams. It leads to some interesting weekends! 😂

Do you have to understand?

I'm a huge football fan, I enjoy watching football, tennis, athletics, F1 and plenty of other sport.

Dd2 and I really enjoyed watching the match yesterday and it was great to see a different team win the trophy to the usual 'top 6'.

I don't really enjoy eurovision, I sometimes endure it just to see what's going on. Lots of people love eurovision I don't sneer or look down on those people for enjoying it.

I think sneering at others shows far lower self esteem tbh