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Football is far more than just an interest, a hobby, a pastime, a game, a bit of fun and nothing more than that.Sluffy wrote:It's just a game ffs!
If it interfering with the happiness of my family, I'd pack it in - Christ you put them first not some ridiculously paid blokes kicking a ball about.
I suspect we all got into football because it's how blokes bond, we probably started going when our dad or elder brothers took us, we continued going with our school mates and later on with our work mates.
Football is a common bond we can communicate and relate to strangers almost instantly on meeting them - you know, 'hello my name is Sluffy, I support Bolton, what team do you support' and we can chat away to them immediately from then on.
It does becomes a little part of us, I still feel a tad down when we lose and cheerfuller when we win but I don't lose site that it IS just a game and one that society massively overvalues and which pays footballers fortunes - and for what - just kicking a ball better than the next man - why is that skill so highly valued more than say a brain surgeons, a nurse or a fireman for instance?
For some reason sport has become politicised, some country's promote themselves on the world stage through such sporting success - probably started in the modern era with Hitler's, Berlin Olympics and carried on through Russia and East Germany in the sixties and seventies, and skip to these days, where super rich people (eg Abramovitch) and country' buy teams (City, PSG) as their personal vanity projects.
Notice how elite sport has been exempted and promoted through the pandemic, when grassroots were shut down and we couldn't leave our homes?
Sport, football in particular, as become the opium of the masses.
In some senses it is used to control the populous in a similar way as the welfare state does - it keeps people 'happy' and preoccupied rather than looking to bringing the governments down.
If you think I've lost the plot a little bit then reflect on how country's such as China, Afghanistan, Iran the middle east, much of sub-Sahara Africa, etc, etc - who don't have such ingrained social norms - and need to use their military to control its dissenters and stop popular unrest against those who control them?
At the end of the day you can only control one thing and that is yourself.
If you act like a bit of a bell-end just because your team is playing badly or lost, then you really need to take a good look at yourself - especially if it is affecting the ones you love around you - and re-evaluate what your priorities should be.
Football is just an interest, a hobby, a pastime, a game, a bit of fun - and nothing more than that.
Sluffy wrote:It's just a game ffs!
If it interfering with the happiness of my family, I'd pack it in - Christ you put them first not some ridiculously paid blokes kicking a ball about.
I suspect we all got into football because it's how blokes bond, we probably started going when our dad or elder brothers took us, we continued going with our school mates and later on with our work mates.
Football is a common bond we can communicate and relate to strangers almost instantly on meeting them - you know, 'hello my name is Sluffy, I support Bolton, what team do you support' and we can chat away to them immediately from then on.
It does becomes a little part of us, I still feel a tad down when we lose and cheerfuller when we win but I don't lose site that it IS just a game and one that society massively overvalues and which pays footballers fortunes - and for what - just kicking a ball better than the next man - why is that skill so highly valued more than say a brain surgeons, a nurse or a fireman for instance?
For some reason sport has become politicised, some country's promote themselves on the world stage through such sporting success - probably started in the modern era with Hitler's, Berlin Olympics and carried on through Russia and East Germany in the sixties and seventies, and skip to these days, where super rich people (eg Abramovitch) and country' buy teams (City, PSG) as their personal vanity projects.
Notice how elite sport has been exempted and promoted through the pandemic, when grassroots were shut down and we couldn't leave our homes?
Sport, football in particular, as become the opium of the masses.
In some senses it is used to control the populous in a similar way as the welfare state does - it keeps people 'happy' and preoccupied rather than looking to bringing the governments down.
If you think I've lost the plot a little bit then reflect on how country's such as China, Afghanistan, Iran the middle east, much of sub-Sahara Africa, etc, etc - who don't have such ingrained social norms - and need to use their military to control its dissenters and stop popular unrest against those who control them?
At the end of the day you can only control one thing and that is yourself.
If you act like a bit of a bell-end just because your team is playing badly or lost, then you really need to take a good look at yourself - especially if it is affecting the ones you love around you - and re-evaluate what your priorities should be.
Football is just an interest, a hobby, a pastime, a game, a bit of fun - and nothing more than that.
Whitesince63 wrote:Come on Sluffy, on this one you do sound like a miserable old chuff. No other interest in my life has given me more pain and pleasure than football. Not just Wanderers, though mainly the Whites but also England over the years. Which of us who were there could ever forget the joy and excitement of winning the World Cup in 66 or the annoyance and disappointment at the “hand of God”? Football is like no other form of entertainment and no matter how much it’s been ruined by money these days, I get as much if not more of a thrill out of watching my 12 year old granddaughter giving it her all for Milmoor Juniors as I do anybody else. You can’t really believe what you just posted but if you do I can only feel sorry on what you’re missing out on.
Sluffy wrote:Football is just an interest, a hobby, a pastime, a game, a bit of fun - and nothing more than that.
Sluffy wrote:It is part of the entertainment industry just in the same way as going to the circus, or theatre, or cinema, or gig/music festival, etc, etc.
boltonbonce wrote:Deary me Sluffy.
I suppose an orchestra is just a lot of wood and metal, with a few strings thrown in.
Beethoven's ninth symphony is just some squiggly lines on some paper.
boltonbonce wrote:Got a pretty wide taste in music. Used to have a season ticket for The Halle, when they were still at the Free Trade Hall, but don't get to many concerts since they moved to the Bridgewater Hall.
What kind of music floats your boat, Sluffy?
I can picture you swinging along to Sinatra. Am I wrong?
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