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Have you missed football?

Have you missed football?

  • Yes

    Votes: 97 23.3%
  • Yes but not Spurs

    Votes: 83 20.0%
  • No

    Votes: 236 56.7%

  • Total voters
    416

Pimp_Spur

Well-Known Member
Mar 23, 2005
1,122
2,045
To be honest I haven't really missed football much. Part of it is due to our poor performances and if its not spurs playing then watching other games has now become a bit boring a tedious for me. Along with this, I have recently started to manage my son's Under 7s team and get 100% more satisfaction from being involved in this than i do watching Spurs play. I get more of a buzz when my under 7s are playing a match and seeing them play well - at least they try and make an effort
 

ILS

Well-Known Member
Jun 21, 2008
3,803
6,913
To be honest I haven't really missed football much. Part of it is due to our poor performances and if its not spurs playing then watching other games has now become a bit boring a tedious for me. Along with this, I have recently started to manage my son's Under 7s team and get 100% more satisfaction from being involved in this than i do watching Spurs play. I get more of a buzz when my under 7s are playing a match and seeing them play well - at least they try and make an effort
Couldn't agree more. I watched both my lads play well and win their games yesterday morning and get more satisfaction out of it. I actually joked with some of th parents as I was heading back home that you can always count on Spurs to ruin a good day....and they obliged!
 

scat1620

L'espion mal fait
May 11, 2008
16,280
52,491
"Disease" is a great choice of word that captures exactly how I feel about Spurs and football. Looking back on the 25 years I've followed Spurs for, I remember feeling miserable due to football far, far more than I remember feeling happy due to it, and that ratio of misery to happiness hasn't changed much even during our supposed renaissance period of the last 10 years, so it wasn't just Gerry Francis and Colin Calderwood colouring my present view.

Like @vicbob, I was already set to cancel my OH membership this summer because I could no longer stomach handing over money to ENIC, who I feel to be cold, unromantic and avaricious owners who are solely involved with the sport to increase the value of their investment and who are completely indifferent to making the lives of any Spurs fans happier, unless by sheer chance that happens as a by-product of an action in service of their overriding monetary goals.

But it's more than just that. The enforced time-out that covid has put on mine and everyone else's lives has given me pause to realise that I dislike more things about football than I enjoy. I dislike the obscene money that has taken over the upper echelons of the game: players, staff and owners alike. I dislike my emotions being manipulated (more often than not for the worse) by events which I have no control over. I dislike inane small-talk chatting and point-scoring bait-y arguments about football with colleagues and friends, and sometimes my own family. I dislike the TV, radio and press coverage of football and especially the circus around football like transfer speculation and contract rumours. And with the likes of VAR and the dogmatic defence of its implementation by authorities who never even acknowledge its maddening inconsistencies let alone try to fix them, I'm increasingly disliking the game of football itself.

For my own peace of mind I'll allow my Sky Sports season ticket pass on NOW TV to expire without renewal when it runs out, and cancel the BT Sport add-on I have with my broadband. When football does restart, the sheer ubiquity of its coverage means it will be pretty hard to avoid even without those mainline feeds, but I think I'm going to try and frame myself in my mind as a former football fan and see how that goes for just not giving a shit about any of it. The hardest part will be getting across my change of heart to the people who know me and use football as a regular topic to shoot the shit on, because it's not easy to say to people that you'd rather not talk about something as (on the face of it) harmless as football because it makes you feel miserable.
'Sup my dudes?
 

vicbob

Well-Known Member
Aug 26, 2008
2,401
5,104
'Sup my dudes?
Absolutely with you mate, my love of football died several years ago, spurs kept me hooked for a few years more, but even that faint ember that has held me for awhile has all but died now.
I feel happier not getting bothered by it, it doesn’t dominate my weekends, and I don’t get bothered if we perform like today, I just don’t care anymore.

In a way, It’s sad that something that was so important to me for 35 years has been taken away, football in general is totally corrupt and led by money grabbing FIFA and oil doped clubs, but ENIC and in particular DL have sucked the joy out of the club I loved for so long, but I honestly enjoy my weekends more, so maybe the poison dwarf ain’t so bad ?

SC is still my first port of call for all other subjects in the world though, there are some interesting people on here, just best staying out of the football threads.
 

Bobbins

SC's 14th Sexiest Male 2008
May 5, 2005
21,548
45,031
I still don’t watch any more football now than I did when we were talking about this - I almost never really wanted it to come back.

Football in general and particularly supporting Spurs doesn’t add anything positive to my life - I no longer have any mates to go with (everyone’s moved away or had kids) and haven’t been in years, I still don’t feel any real connection to the club any more, I don’t watch anything involving any other clubs at all anymore, and there’s very little sign of any of that returning.

Plan was to try and get more into watching my local club (especially as they’re pretty decent now) but that just hasn’t happened. 2 kids in the last 4 years has just made football take a massive back seat to be honest.

The prospect of Arsenal winning the league has made me glad I’ve not got back into it.
 

Dougal

Staff
Jun 4, 2004
60,345
129,920
I do miss football. This isn’t football. I’m sticking my Arsenal ticket on the exchange. It’s very possible I don’t go back this season. This ‘thing’ is toxic, provides no release anymore and life would be better without it.
 

Lifelong

Well-Known Member
Aug 22, 2013
762
1,855
Absolutely with you mate, my love of football died several years ago, spurs kept me hooked for a few years more, but even that faint ember that has held me for awhile has all but died now.
I feel happier not getting bothered by it, it doesn’t dominate my weekends, and I don’t get bothered if we perform like today, I just don’t care anymore.

In a way, It’s sad that something that was so important to me for 35 years has been taken away, football in general is totally corrupt and led by money grabbing FIFA and oil doped clubs, but ENIC and in particular DL have sucked the joy out of the club I loved for so long, but I honestly enjoy my weekends more, so maybe the poison dwarf ain’t so bad ?

SC is still my first port of call for all other subjects in the world though, there are some interesting people on here, just best staying out of the football threads.
Exactly this……..I used to live for 3pm Saturday afternoon………..even when we were a lot shitter than we are now. But the game I loved unfortunately is gone forever, and I get that things must progress but in football’s case it’s definitely for the worse. I still love this club and always will and going to the games with my son was one of my great joys and when my grandson is a bit older, him as well, but it will never hit those highs again…….and that’s a real shame…
 

Jody

SC Supporter
Sep 11, 2004
7,004
5,814
Exactly this……..I used to live for 3pm Saturday afternoon………..even when we were a lot shitter than we are now. But the game I loved unfortunately is gone forever, and I get that things must progress but in football’s case it’s definitely for the worse. I still love this club and always will and going to the games with my son was one of my great joys and when my grandson is a bit older, him as well, but it will never hit those highs again…….and that’s a real shame…
Absolutely. I never get excited watching spurs anymore. Its more relief when we score / win then enjoyment.

People say rebuilds are painful - I actually think they were the best of times for pure enjoyment. This top 4 purgatory can do one.
 

DCSPUR64

Well-Known Member
Dec 2, 2018
1,476
2,349
Spurs till I die, and I always love going over for the games, next trip Milan and Forest. But tonight I am so depressed in where we have come to.
It hurts as it means so much to me.
Sleep is always a good thing with days like this.
 

wrd

Well-Known Member
Aug 22, 2014
13,603
58,005
I didn't watch any of the world cup and I thought that I would perhaps struggle with that but actually what I found was that I was extremely happy over the month because I was spending my time doing all sorts of other things. I don't know if the exclusion of football can be seen as the main cause but I thought a crucial aspect to my happiness was that even though we do have the summer with no football, it's actually the time I'm most invested in football due to all the transfer stuff, with it being a month off and no transfer stuff, it was a extremely different experience. I think with football it isn't just the 90 minutes of the game, it's everything that goes with it and over the past few years where football was the escapism before from negativity, those extra things now seem to be the negativity. I find with people in my life that I can have great conversations with them but then we all turn into the worst versions of ourselves when it comes to Spurs as we regress.

When we played Brentford I enjoyed the 90 minutes but I'm certainly trying to balance keeping the aspects of football I enjoy such as the not too negative chats on here and the benefits I got when there was no football in my life.
 
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