[MarieL]

Very stoic. Good and bad things don't really get me going. I also seem to care more about the sport in general than about clubs specifically.

It's the opposite for me. Seems these days only Lazio can make me excited as far as watching football goes. And to me football is not that entertaining without a little bit of excitement. I used to be able to watch a game between two crappy EPL teams and be on the edge of my seat simply by deciding to favour one of them over the other, but these days I just get bored. :undecide: Maybe it's because these days I can only watch football via the Internet or when I'm at home, as opposed to before when I was still living at home and watching several EPL and Serie A games every week. And then again I had a lot less going on in my life when I was still living at home.

The Derby della Capitale still gives me butterflies though. And high blood pressure.

 

[Rihana]

Don't lose the 'because you are not exposed yet to those real problems in life.' in your quote Rihanna

I am exposed to the real shitty problems of everyday life. But football is still a passion...(thats not saying that my whole life revolves around football like it does for a lot of folks out there)

I'm at my worst during the World Cup/Euro's when France are playing.

Since about a year and a half football isn't anything more then a hobby for me, where I was exactly like you before that time. These days I still follow my team very closely, but I won't be sad for hours or even days after a defeat

But for some people, football is more important than just a hobby.

 

[The Green One]

I'm passionate, and at the same time show a great deal of apathy at times. I love City, but two seasons ago I didn't renew my season ticket. Why? Cost, and a poor atmosphere. I do however show commitment by going to many away games instead, where I get many chants going in the City end and have travelled as far as Hamburg to see the team. I also have the crest tattooed on my calf.

 

[Jibril]

Next season I'll be going to Huddersfield, Tranmere and Yeovil.

Some call it loyalty - I call it insanity.

I feel like going into hibernation for the next 12 months.

 

[PMC]

i'm not following the league at all, but happend to catch that 7-0 against "everything that is wrong with football" by coincidence on tv.
unforgettable!
the look on their "fans" faces.
how one can follow red bull is beyond me...

the austrian forum is dead aswell around here.

that game was off the hook

and yeah the Austrian forum is quite bland... typical austrians p

 

[Kopite]

I`m a fan who love watch the exciting games generally , love my club and try to look for the latest news about them .. and proud of their prestige as well .

I love to see a specific kind of players who are similar to Redondo , Boban , Zidane , Ronadinho , Simao , Zambrotta . and Owen of (liverpool )!!... etc

 

[Pila]

I was once like that, but -with the risk of sounding like a crap fan- don't you think you sort of grow out of that somehow? I did anyway. Let's say that I was down for days when my team lost back when I was a young teenager. Then my psychological problems hit me really hard during my mid-teens and I realised that "it was only football, only a game". I was happy just to attend games and be distracted from my real issues for a few hours, to have a break from daily issues. But shortly after the game those real problems are there again, and then you sort of realise that a defeat or a relegation in football is just a bad result but nothing more. It is a game. In the end the real issues in life are your job, guaranteeing an income, support your family (if you have one), ... Football is a pleasant hobby but I have difficulties in taking it too serious. I wouldn't want to anyway, not even the worst defeat comes anywhere near the seriousness of real problems: finances, health, unemployment, you get what I mean. I am happy I have football and groundhopping on weekly basis to offer me amusement and a break from those serious issues, but just being at the stadium and enjoying myself is fulfilling my needs really, the result of the game is nowhere near the priority.

Maybe I am no "die hard" then but I can easily smile again 5 minutes after losing 9-0, or sleap well after my team has just been relegated. Some really difficult times during my youth have put football in perspective to me, and having a game without worries to me is actually my own victory even if my team is losing heavily. I still need Xanax with me as a panic attack can occur at any time even during a football game, to spend an entire day out (leaving for an away game in the morning, seeing the game without any hassle, and returning home in a good mood) without those issues is my own victory even if my team just lost quite badly.

Thus the term - Fan(atic). It doesn't have to have rhyme or reason - sport is life's escape clause. We invest heavily with emotion and our pocket book because it is one of the few things that we can remain being irrational about without life's potential price that may come with misjudgement.

It's a license, a chance, to be reckless with our interests. When it goes wrong, you pay only with a mood swing, whereas in real life you need to remain desciplined, apply even-keeled rationale even in tough times to deal and overcome with the obstacles that come your way. That takes effort and work, so it becomes important for us to take the occasional moment off to be irrational and immature. Wihtout it, we'd be killing eachother at rates not seen since the beginning of civlization. It's a way to funnel and channel our competitive animalistic instincts... a relief valve, if you will.

 

[gnk_dz]

I don't care about players. Club should be above this gay idolizing of players that we see today. Shame. Players shouldn't even be considered as club icons or fan idols if they didn't spend at least 5 years at that club. Today we have 6 months wanders who are already put in "all time teams" by some ppl.

 

[Rihana]

Thus the term - Fan(atic). It doesn't have to have rhyme or reason - sport is life's escape clause. We invest heavily with emotion and our pocket book because it is one of the few things that we can remain being irrational about without life's potential price that may come with misjudgement.

It's a license, a chance, to be reckless with our interests. When it goes wrong, you pay only with a mood swing, whereas in real life you need to remain desciplined, apply even-keeled rationale even in tough times to deal and overcome with the obstacles that come your way. That takes effort and work, so it becomes important for us to take the occasional moment off to be irrational and immature. Wihtout it, we'd be killing eachother at rates not seen since the beginning of civlization. It's a way to funnel and channel our competitive animalistic instincts... a relief valve, if you will.

Brilliant analysis Pila. :thmbup:

 

[Lucky Luciano]

Thus the term - Fan(atic). It doesn't have to have rhyme or reason - sport is life's escape clause. We invest heavily with emotion and our pocket book because it is one of the few things that we can remain being irrational about without life's potential price that may come with misjudgement.

It's a license, a chance, to be reckless with our interests. When it goes wrong, you pay only with a mood swing, whereas in real life you need to remain desciplined, apply even-keeled rationale even in tough times to deal and overcome with the obstacles that come your way. That takes effort and work, so it becomes important for us to take the occasional moment off to be irrational and immature. Wihtout it, we'd be killing eachother at rates not seen since the beginning of civlization. It's a way to funnel and channel our competitive animalistic instincts... a relief valve, if you will.

Complete nonsense.

Might be true for retards born in the 20th century.

 

[Pila]

Shaddap, boy. You speak when I tell you to speak.

 

[Lucky Luciano]

Shaddap, boy. You speak when I tell you to speak.

Your posts are a bit like a hideously ugly girl after a lot of surgery
and make up.

Still ugly at the end of the day.

I like how you try to sound deep, when you have as much depth
as a shallow puddle

 

[mali]

oh!
slow down please, you both.
stay on topic.

 

[Pila]

Your attempts at a lucid analogy is a lot like watching an infant trying to start a chainsaw - the efforts are cute, but an eventual disaster.

 

[Lucky Luciano]

Moving on.

Football is not an integral of life, far from it, just entertainment.

And personally it all depends on how the player leaves, but I dont
usually have a problem with players who move elsewhere.

Except in special cases, like Gabriel Heinze threatning to take
Manchester United to court in order to sign for arch rivals Liverpool
esp considering how well the club treated him after breaking a leg.

 

[Rob]

Complete nonsense.

Might be true for retards born in the 20th century.

Unless we have a bunch of 8 year old posters breaking the site rules, then we were all born in the 20th century.

 

[Lucky Luciano]

Unless we have a bunch of 8 year old posters breaking the site rules, then we were all born in the 20th century.

Thank you for pointing out the obvious :thumbsup:

I dont get the point you're trying to make, however I wasn't
saying everyone born in the 20th century is a retard, just those
who buy into Freud's psycho babble about the importance of
sports to society

 

[naervod]

Thing is, I enjoy watching football anytime, anywhere. Hell, I'm going to see Bohemians (the Irish one) play Rhyl in the Intertoto Cup when I'm in Ireland the UK this summer just because I can!

However, the matches I live for, the ones I get worked up for are Torino's. Watching the Earthquakes play also gets me excited, but not as much as Toro because they way the MLS is set up does just not generate the same passion I feel. I like it alot and think it can grow, but with no relegation and most teams making the playoffs it just takes the edge out of watching lots of the games, which is what I thrive on when watching Toro. But yeah, Toro. I will get furious when things don't go our way. (Which happens more often than not.) Sometimes I'm furious at the team, lots of times the other time, often at the ref, and by furious I mean furious. I'm normally a pretty reserved guy, but when something goes wrong I often flip out, and when something goes right I will go nuts with joy. Example, when Rosina hit the crossbar with his free kick in the Turin derby, I kicked and broke the chair I was sitting in, but when we scored three goals to come back from 4-1 down against Parma I was dancing up and down the halls. (But then proceded to flip out when Ventola hit the crossbar with a header that could have put us up 5-4. )

When Toro aren't playing they occupy my thoughts anyways. I am much more reserved about it though.

 

[audiollama]

Thus the term - Fan(atic). It doesn't have to have rhyme or reason - sport is life's escape clause. We invest heavily with emotion and our pocket book because it is one of the few things that we can remain being irrational about without life's potential price that may come with misjudgement.

It's a license, a chance, to be reckless with our interests. When it goes wrong, you pay only with a mood swing, whereas in real life you need to remain desciplined, apply even-keeled rationale even in tough times to deal and overcome with the obstacles that come your way. That takes effort and work, so it becomes important for us to take the occasional moment off to be irrational and immature. Wihtout it, we'd be killing eachother at rates not seen since the beginning of civlization. It's a way to funnel and channel our competitive animalistic instincts... a relief valve, if you will.

Well said, Pila, well said. But I only think the sentence about killing each other is nonsense, too. The rest is true, damn true.

I don't care about players. Club should be above this gay idolizing of players that we see today. Shame. Players shouldn't even be considered as club icons or fan idols if they didn't spend at least 5 years at that club. Today we have 6 months wanders who are already put in "all time teams" by some ppl.

Also a good post. We've won our first trophy in 40 years last season and still we only have one player in it, nah.. two players in it who deserve to be in an all time squad in some years time.
It's the bad period when you notice that football is about the game and the club, but not about the players. They can change, but you are bound to the club.


What kind of fan am I? Tonight we have our second to last home game and in case we don't win it we're relegated. And even a win doesn't guarantee 1st tier football next year. I'm already nervous for days, and even if everything goes down the sink I will be back next season and have a daily eye on the ongoings during the summer break. My FCN is so deep in my heart and soul, and that will never change. I'm nearly 29 now, I will never grow out of that.
And I also noticed that every now and then some people think of me when they see the FCN play or read about the club. They've told me about that and I had to think of Nick Hornby's book in which he wrote a similar passage. I like that.

 

[MaidenMadness]

What kind of fan am I? Well...my club is filled with mafiosos and thieves who just look out for their own interests. We've had bank account blocked the past 13 years due to debts and in that time we have been functioning illegally over a false account. Players' agents pick the team, not the best players play but the players with most influential agents which is the reason why playerslike goran rubil who wouldn't even be regular first team player in 3rd tier of croatian football is a standard first team player. for the third year in a row we are left 20+ points behind the only other club in croatia who matters. i have seen hajduk deteriorate from a club that was strong enough to reach quarter finals of the champions league to a club that gets his ass kicked by a bunch of fisherman from ireland (shelbourne) and gets 8-0 on aggregate thrashing to a bunch of sausage makers from hungary (debrecen). i see my club fail to a level where barely passing clubs such as buducnost podgorica is seen as a huge success. i have seen my club go from a breeder of young players such as alen boksic, robert jarni, aljosa asanovic, milan rapaic, slaven bilic... to a level where we take rejects like goran sablic, florin cernat and maris verpakovskis on a loan from clubs who are 3rd tier of european football, clubs like dynamo kiev.
i have seen my club deteriorate to a level where we can't even finish 2nd in croatian league which is one of the weakest leagues in europe and even maltan league is more competitive.
i see hajduk who for the 5th year running has no gameplay whatsoever. i see hajduk who had 18 different coaches (thats managers for you english ppls) in past 8 years. i see hajduk from which players see a transfer to bottom of the table russian clubs, 2nd bundesliga clubs and even middle east clubs as a step forward in their career. i see hajduk in which one igor tudor who is a half invalid that hasn't played proper football in 2 years and who can't play a game without picking up an injury is one of the better defensive players.

i see all that and i still love hajduk as much as i did when the name Hajduk Split meant something.... thats what kind of a fan i am.