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Turning your back on football?

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I'm a MLF and have a season ticket and I watch any football that Is on TV, regardless who's playing. I even watched Berwick v Gretna on BBC iplayer the other week.

However, I am definitely not as into football as I was when I was a kid in the 80s & 90s. It just isn't the same these days for a multitude of reasons.

I'm massively into snooker and boxing and I'll be honest, I have contemplated putting more of my time and money into these instead if football. But, at present football is still the winner but only just....
 

FN-2187 said:
Do you know anyone who has just said, sod this and walked away from football.

They are sick of the way the game has gone, the money, the pretty much no chance of winning anything for your team. So much so that they just say fuck it. They don't talk about it, post about it, just live their lives as if football doesn't exist.

I haven't. I do know a couple of people who don't have any interest in football and have always been that way.
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My Dad. To a certain extent.

Brought me up as a Sunderland fan, but we'd go to Newcastle with his mate, or to Hartlepool or Darlo as well. But he was always red and white, and had season tickets for years.

A few years ago he lost all passion for football, and unless I'm home and I drag him to Sunderland with me and the lad (which for him is more about spending time with his son and grandson than the match), he probably wouldn't go at all.

Even then, he'd rather we went to a Northern League game than go through the supposed "effort" of going to Sunderland.
I find that quite sad, but at the same time I think even if we were challenging for the Premiership I think he'd be the same. It's just not the sport he grew up with.

I kind of get that
 
FN-2187 said:
Do you know anyone who has just said, sod this and walked away from football.

They are sick of the way the game has gone, the money, the pretty much no chance of winning anything for your team. So much so that they just say fuck it. They don't talk about it, post about it, just live their lives as if football doesn't exist.

I haven't. I do know a couple of people who don't have any interest in football and have always been that way.
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Did that fivers ago.
 
Its been a gradual decline for me.
Was home and away from early 70s through to early 80s, then joined the forces and moved away.
Pretty much 10 yrs at sea, and when I left I stayed in Devon.
Still go to some away games, but rarely get up to Sunderland. Roker Park was like my 2nd home, reserve games, the lot. I feel like I knew every inch of that place. It was almost as if everything that I looked back on with fondness from my youth revolved around it in some way. It had a feeling, a soul.
SOL is magnificent, a home to be proud of, (especially my 2 bricks), the envy of lots of clubs, but it has no memories for me when I go. Its almost like I feel like a visitor, rather than a member of a family that I loved and felt loved by.
Circumstances I suppose.
Still can't get through a matchday without total euphoria or absolute desolation, and my passion for the club will never go away, even if I wanted it to. Its part of me. Wake up, breath, eat, Sunderland(not always in that order).
Just a little sad that the best days of my relationship with club are probably behind me now.
I envy a little, the young lads that have what I had still to come.
Enjoy and savour it.
 
The last kick in the guts for me was when Hughton was sacked and replaced by Pardew. I already had tickets for the next game ( v Liverpool) so I went to that. Decided I was done with it. I went to the last home game of the same season v Wolves for a drink with the lads and haven't been back since. Prior to this happening I had been.following Newcastle up and down the country for years. Having mostly lived away from the North East since I was 18 that involved all kinds of logistical problems. I attended more away games than home ones. I timed my trips back home to maximize the amount of games I could get to. My passion never dimmed, I loved it and never thought about the effort or money I put into going. I'm not sure why the sacking of Hughton was such a big deal to me, but it was. Since living in.China I have been to a good few games watching Shenzhen and Beijing Guoan and enjoyed it. I still love to watch a game, but nowt like I used to be. As far as international games are concerned I couldn't be less interested, same with the premier league. Tedious discussions about tactics and players never did it for me, I just want to see the action. The overkill of the game on TV hasn't helped, it just never stops. We used to have a close season, but now we just keep it going. Transfer windows in January are an annoyance. Switching teams half way through a season ffs. I'm pretty much done with it.
 
Really only follow the lads now. Football has gotten ridiculous. More and more like a franchise American sport every day.
I’ll watch a few premiership games now and again but the lads are really all that interest me.
 
I like many others was obsessed once upon a time. Would watch any game I could and when I couldn’t watch the lads I’d be tuning in somewhere on the radio if I had to.

Now it’s just became a passing interest in the sport. Barely watch any football anymore. Even with us I just tend to check the scores after the game now.

Watch a lot of boxing and f1 now and enjoy both of them a lot more than football.

I think it’s just been a mixture of us being really shit for a long time, football as a whole being a fucked and not having a great deal of free time being an adult has lead to me just choosing to watch other sports instead over football.
 
Redandwhitedust said:
My Dad. To a certain extent.

Brought me up as a Sunderland fan, but we'd go to Newcastle with his mate, or to Hartlepool or Darlo as well. But he was always red and white, and had season tickets for years.

A few years ago he lost all passion for football, and unless I'm home and I drag him to Sunderland with me and the lad (which for him is more about spending time with his son and grandson than the match), he probably wouldn't go at all.

Even then, he'd rather we went to a Northern League game than go through the supposed "effort" of going to Sunderland.
I find that quite sad, but at the same time I think even if we were challenging for the Premiership I think he'd be the same. It's just not the sport he grew up with.

I kind of get that
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Aye my dad’s the same. Did his job by taking me to Hull and making me a supporter (thanks dad, so grateful :neutral:) but although he still checks the scores, he doesn’t go to games. Not sure he’d even check the scores if I suddenly ceased to exist. Last game he watched was the 2014 FA cup final but even before that he didn’t watch much. Think it was our premiership years that did it for him and again I can see why. It was certainly an eye opener from where we’ve been most of the time I, and certainly he, had been going
 
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Redandwhitedust said:
My Dad. To a certain extent.

Brought me up as a Sunderland fan, but we'd go to Newcastle with his mate, or to Hartlepool or Darlo as well. But he was always red and white, and had season tickets for years.

A few years ago he lost all passion for football, and unless I'm home and I drag him to Sunderland with me and the lad (which for him is more about spending time with his son and grandson than the match), he probably wouldn't go at all.

Even then, he'd rather we went to a Northern League game than go through the supposed "effort" of going to Sunderland.
I find that quite sad, but at the same time I think even if we were challenging for the Premiership I think he'd be the same. It's just not the sport he grew up with.

I kind of get that
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Seems like this is an age thing. My dad was the same, didn't realise it at the time, but I realise now he only went in his later years for my sake, as you say a father and son thing, its obviously what good dads do, more a day on the lash with his son than anything else, yet he was the bloke who got me hooked, the same thing now applies to me and my own son.
 
Not watched other teams live for years, I don’t mind match of the day but hardly watch that ether, but live football as become a joke, I’d amazed if the ball is in play for 30 minutes of the 90. It seems like you’re constantly waiting for free kicks, corners, goal kicks, and throw in, to be taken. It’s ridiculous, I’m still going to every Barnsley game but I’m thinking of knocking away games on the head and going to horse racing instead.
 
FN-2187 said:
Do you know anyone who has just said, sod this and walked away from football.

They are sick of the way the game has gone, the money, the pretty much no chance of winning anything for your team. So much so that they just say fuck it. They don't talk about it, post about it, just live their lives as if football doesn't exist.

I haven't. I do know a couple of people who don't have any interest in football and have always been that way.
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Have to say it went close not the last closed season but the one before.any more changes and I could see me doing that but not the lad.
 
no interest in any football other than sunderland. i can watch and enjoy rugby union as a neutral fan but not a football game that doesn't involve us.
tbh i enjoy going to games more in this league and the championship more than the premier league, especially the away games. the only thing i do miss about being in the premier league is the derby games and they may well be back next year.
 
The Albanian said:
Opposite for me.

I only watch internationals and Champions League.

Will probably watch more when we’re back in the Prem but league 1 football isn’t for someone who knows as much about football as me.
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There are probably people on here that have forgotten more about football than you'll ever know.
 
Unlucky Black Cat said:
Out of interest, why did you Jack England travel in? It's not something I've done (other than World Cup finals games abroad) but imagine it would be good to do.

Did you get sick of it?
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Bit of getting sick and family mate children and a mortgage came along so money became an issue it was between Sunderland and England and Sunderland always wins with that one.

I did enjoy it though would advise giving it a go
 
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