you want a star on your arse for going to some football matches? Is it like nam?
I watch and play football for enjoyment not so I can boast like some nerd about what matches I've been to, or what grounds. I simply don't enjoy watching Larne or any of the other duffers who boot the ball about in the Irish league to spend 10 quid and my saturday afternoon watching them from a wind swept deserted stand and i'm not about to start pretending to in order to earn some sort of kudos from a plastic paddy chimp on urban. I grew up in a house swamped with football, my dad managed football teams all my life, I've been watching football since I was 5 and played it regularly until I was 15 and every other fucker hit puberty and turnt into a monster. I don't tell you this as some sort of sad attempt to assert what a 'top footie mad' gimp I am, fuck liking football is hardly some rarity, it's as common as muck. It certainly isn't something to boast about, "ohh well I really really really really really really times ten million like football", brilliant what age are we 8, if that's the case may I suggest you marry Glasgow Celtic or maybe even offer one of the coaches a handjob (you might be a bit old now though).
If I lived in England i'd go watch more matches, fuck i'd be over the moon to even have a local 1st or 2nd division side to cheer on, but if I did go that would be based on me wanting to go not on some sublimated catholic penance. I mean really you get to football matches, congratulations on the bravery, it must be so tough for you, obviously you're too much of a hero to go because you enjoy it, nah obviously your's is a higher calling.
I've never had anytime for that bullshit 'football as religion' shite that so many cheesy bastards come out with, the whole 'life and death' Shankly bollox or that muppet with the 'United, Kids, Wife: In that order" banner. Either they are just acting up and don't really mean it or they are seriously sad bastards who need to get their priorities straightened. The simple fact is that football is a form of entertainment, you do it because you enjoy it not out of some 'calling' or some nonsense about it being 'in the blood'.
As it is if I could go to see United week in week out i'd love to, it wouldn't be a duty, it wouldn't be something to act the martyr about, as if i'd put myself out for "the lads", to become a 'top red' that I was somehow better than those who are stuck watching in a pub or on a shitty stream. It would be a fucking pleasure and a previlege and one I can't afford to enjoy.
As for what going to live games has got to do with me slagging off liverpool or celtic i'll never know, whether I have a box filled with coke and high class hookers or a season ticket in the Stretford end or sit in warm pub with a dodgy greek satelite dish, it makes fuck all difference to Liverpool's chances of winning the league or how deluded their fans are to think they can win the league. Nor does my attendance at football grounds affect the sectarianism of the Old Firm, nor the tedious shite their respective fans spout about irish politics.
To be honest your whole post is embarrassing, it reads identical to the pathetic geek snobbery of any subculture, like the hardcore music fan, it's not simply about enjoying the music, it becomes some sort of sad identity, a whole 'lifestyle', seeing Refused live in 1997 gives you bragging rights, makes your opinion automatically more valid on everything. God forbid anyone admitted that they are into music to enjoy themselves, oh fuck no, instead it's about supporting 'the scene', going to see a band in Glasgow is no longer an excuse for a piss up in a shitty van and a good time, nah it's a pilgrimage.
Also football is not REAL FUCKING LIFE you sad bastard, it's an enjoyable distraction, admittedly a rather brilliant one but not a life style, religion or calling. So drop the fucking cheesy bollox, catch yourself on and bring yourself to terms that Celtic are only a fucking football team, Jock Stein only a football manager, not a fucking Saint and then maybe just maybe you won't be so blind to the fact Big Jock Knew and even better you might not get so wound up at Rangers fans taking the pish about it.
p.s. I still live in belfast.
p.p.s. I would not be seen dead in my replica shirt outside the house or five a side, I think it's fucking sad grown men wearing football tops to pubs, I mean really what happens if there's a cute girl there.
