Well since I'm still good enough to play for a team whose results are carried in a national newspaper, I don't have to satisfy myself with watching most weeks. That'll come sometime after 45 - in at least 17 years.
However, I see an average of 3/4 Everton games a season, as well as 5 or 6 Weston games, and the occasional City game. I reckon that makes me a football fan.
You continue living your life through others though. The sad thing about age and being shit is that once you've hit about 10, you can't start playing football, and have to fantasise that you know the game because you watch it.
And that's fuck all to do with how enjoyable I find attending a game. Just justifying the fact that I choose to play, while I can, rather than watch.
Shame you don't have that choice.