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Football - ceasing to care

I had a great time going to watch Donny Rovers when they were in the Conference. Increasingly I find myself just not giving a flying fuck about football at the top end, with many players earning more in a week than I could earn over a decade plus the arrogance, the sky-high prices, the roasting sessions, the flash cars, the dissent, the violence, the jingoism, the racism, the pay-per-view games on top of the satellite subscriptions and the fact that we're perennial failures at international level despite our continual building 'for the future'; it means little to me anymore. I hope the whole thing collapses and we can begin again.

Listening to Five Live after the game last night I was struck by Gary Neville's comments. I'm paraphrasing the soi disant's shop steward's words here when he said "you have to go over and clap the fans". Have to or should do Gary? Are you told to do that or do you think it's genuinely the right thing to do? I suspect the former. I don't think they've any clue at all.
 
Expanding on my last point, what I mean is that they're children in men's bodies. Solipsistic, selfish, greedy, lacking emotional maturity; the worst traits that many of us had as children are still present in these stunted boys. As a child, and I wasn't spoilt by any means, I'd scoff at having to write thank you letters to distant aunts who'd sent me an unwanted gifts; I thought the world revolved around me and I didn't care about the feelings of others. I thought such gifts were my right. The journey into adulthood is marked by the realisation that you're not the centre of the universe and now I'm pathetically grateful for any gift I'm lucky enough to receive because I understand the thought that goes into it. Is it really any surprise that these horrendously spoilt men, who earn in the region of £100,000 per week and in some cases more, really don't give a fuck when they lose what they perceive is a meaningless game. Do they really understand what it means to the fans who pay so much to follow them around the world? I doubt it.

I can't remember who it was, but I know a friend of mine once met a Premier League footballer who was a few sheets to the wind in a bar; when asked what he thought to his team's fans he replied something along the lines of "fuck 'em".
 
I think that's got a lot of truth to it. Having too much money too soon prevents you from growing up properly ; having everybody telling you how great you are prevents you from growing up properly ; being almost entirely devoted to one small aspect of human experience prevents you from growing up properly.
 
easy g said:
went to a local non-league match last w/e great afternoon out, going to another this Saturday....

off to Bristol soon so I reckon plenty of trips to small local clubs are the way forward for me right now
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Going to watch Rovers then are you


:p@JTG
 
Relahni said:
I still hold to the fact that imho the Champions League which is the best ever competition in the world of football has pissed all over the international football tournaments and they'll never be the same.
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What a load of tosh.
 
Couldn't get excited about England if I tried, especially in a friendly, when the Swede plays 56 different teams and includes David James (who is a fuckwit) and the show pony as Captain.

Germany 2006....its got 'Rioting In the Streets, England Home Counties/Chelsea Fans Dressed as Nazi's Beat Up Families' written all over it
 
Ten years ago I could turn up at Stamford Bridge and buy a ticket on the same day as the game and it wasn't especially pricey either. Over the years I've been priced out of going to any Chelsea games and feel like I'm supporting a Microsoft-style mega-corp rather than a football team. A couple of years ago the mate I used to go to Chelsea with emigrated to Australia. He's coming back for a couple of weeks later in the year and suggested we go to a game. One ticket to see Chelsea versus bully boy relegation candidates Blackburn Rovers is £48. Add travel, booze and food on to that and you're looking at £70+. Got a young family, got a mortgage, can't afford it. Fucking ridiculous.
 
andy2002 said:
Ten years ago I could turn up at Stamford Bridge and buy a ticket on the same day as the game and it wasn't especially pricey either. Over the years I've been priced out of going to any Chelsea games and feel like I'm supporting a Microsoft-style mega-corp rather than a football team. A couple of years ago the mate I used to go to Chelsea with emigrated to Australia. He's coming back for a couple of weeks later in the year and suggested we go to a game. One ticket to see Chelsea versus bully boy relegation candidates Blackburn Rovers is £48. Add travel, booze and food on to that and you're looking at £70+. Got a young family, got a mortgage, can't afford it. Fucking ridiculous.
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Very sad. Hopefully the bottom will fall out one day and we can all go back to shit pies and piss on the terraces, (ahh, the Pop Side at the Baseball Ground, was it that long ago?) then all the middle-class cunts can fuck off back to Rugby Union or whatever it was they watched before they "found" football.
 
andy2002 said:
Ten years ago I could turn up at Stamford Bridge and buy a ticket on the same day as the game and it wasn't especially pricey either. Over the years I've been priced out of going to any Chelsea games and feel like I'm supporting a Microsoft-style mega-corp rather than a football team. A couple of years ago the mate I used to go to Chelsea with emigrated to Australia. He's coming back for a couple of weeks later in the year and suggested we go to a game. One ticket to see Chelsea versus bully boy relegation candidates Blackburn Rovers is £48. Add travel, booze and food on to that and you're looking at £70+. Got a young family, got a mortgage, can't afford it. Fucking ridiculous.
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Yeah, that's it. It really feels corporate at these places too. And when it's cheaper to go to the Royal Opera House than it is to go to a match....

Do try non-league though. Genuinely, you might find that missing all the overkill, missing all the stuff that smothers the game, you discover some football again.
 
Donna Ferentes said:
Do try non-league though. Genuinely, you might find that missing all the overkill, missing all the stuff that smothers the game, you discover some football again.
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I live in Southend now, so as soon as my son's old enough we're going to cheer on the Shrimpers - as long as they haven't been bought up by a billionaire Russian oligarch by then of course! Naturally, I still want Chelsea to do well, but winning stuff meant so much more when we were also-rans with the odd flash player (Gullit, Vialli etc) to keep things interesting. Oh, and the way the current Stamford Bridge regime have treated Ken Bates is an absolute disgrace. For all he did for the club, he should be club chairman for life at the very least.
 
Whats the view here about the Safe Standing campaign?

I don't see a problem with a small section. After all numerous Premiership clubs have taken large away support to small grounds in the cup competitions and no problems have occured
 
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