How can just a game make you feel like this if it was just 22 players kicking a ball around?

 

A season of mixed emotions, mainly bad ones like anger, disappointment and that lost feeling, staring into the sky just hoping things will turn out to be okay.

 

Right now I can't stop thinking of Bolton, when I wake the first thing on my mind is Bolton, throughout the day it's Bolton, seeing other football it's Bolton, I ain't played FIFA 12 since Saturday because I get a really bad feeling inside and it's just too depressing, doubt I'll even watch the Europa League final later on.

 

I try to focus on other things, we're still a few days from 'D-Day' but it feels like it's about to begin, I don't feel anger now, I feel empty, sat sometimes in self pity and anxious of what will happen, you care so much it feels like it's the only thing in your life, in your thoughts.

 

If we stay-up it'll be a mental closure to this torture, though if we drop, I'm not looking forward to the summer, hopefully the Euro's and England can soften the pain (as if, right?)

 

Life is life, much more than football, but it's not just a game, I/we wouldn't feel these emotions if it was.

top stuff dids....

 

i keep forgetting about it for a bit,then i get a sudden feeling of dread and go silent for a bit! haha...

 

not good for your health...

i used to be of that opinion.

 

but life changes, shit happens, and you realise its important, but not the be all and end all.

 

i love my football and for that 90mins, the hour before and hour after, nothing else matters.

 

but then i go home and enjoy life.

 

at the end of the day, it IS just a game.

Edited May 9, 201214 yr by HomerJay

Dids you post shit 99% of the time, but that was a good post. ( I still think you're all not there tho)

How can just a game make you feel like this if it was just 22 players kicking a ball around?

 

A season of mixed emotions, mainly bad ones like anger, disappointment and that lost feeling, staring into the sky just hoping things will turn out to be okay.

 

Right now I can't stop thinking of Bolton, when I wake the first thing on my mind is Bolton, throughout the day it's Bolton, seeing other football it's Bolton, I ain't played FIFA 12 since Saturday because I get a really bad feeling inside and it's just too depressing, doubt I'll even watch the Europa League final later on.

 

I try to focus on other things, we're still a few days from 'D-Day' but it feels like it's about to begin, I don't feel anger now, I feel empty, sat sometimes in self pity and anxious of what will happen, you care so much it feels like it's the only thing in your life, in your thoughts.

 

If we stay-up it'll be a mental closure to this torture, though if we drop, I'm not looking forward to the summer, hopefully the Euro's and England can soften the pain (as if, right?)

 

Life is life, much more than football, but it's not just a game, I/we wouldn't feel these emotions if it was.

 

it is important pal,but i think you need a good shag

I ain't played FIFA 12 since Saturday because I get a really bad feeling inside and it's just too depressing

 

I'm sorry dids but you need to re-evaluate your thinking on life.

 

If you love football that much, get involved with it you dont have to play football to be involved with football. i was 16 when i did my first coaching badge and its the best decision i have ever made.

Playing in the Premier League isn't the be all and end all of football. Sure it is quintessential, but there are many who would rather us thrive in a lower division rather than rot in and around the relegation zone year in year out. In the end though, football really is just a game.

How can just a game make you feel like this if it was just 22 players kicking a ball around?

 

A season of mixed emotions, mainly bad ones like anger, disappointment and that lost feeling, staring into the sky just hoping things will turn out to be okay.

 

Right now I can't stop thinking of Bolton, when I wake the first thing on my mind is Bolton, throughout the day it's Bolton, seeing other football it's Bolton, I ain't played FIFA 12 since Saturday because I get a really bad feeling inside and it's just too depressing, doubt I'll even watch the Europa League final later on.

 

I try to focus on other things, we're still a few days from 'D-Day' but it feels like it's about to begin, I don't feel anger now, I feel empty, sat sometimes in self pity and anxious of what will happen, you care so much it feels like it's the only thing in your life, in your thoughts.

 

If we stay-up it'll be a mental closure to this torture, though if we drop, I'm not looking forward to the summer, hopefully the Euro's and England can soften the pain (as if, right?)

 

Life is life, much more than football, but it's not just a game, I/we wouldn't feel these emotions if it was.

 

I'm not going to say I don't care much about football, but it doesn't occupy my thoughts for every waking hour. If the unthinkable happens on Sunday then I'll be pissed off, fed up and thoroughly depressed for a day or two ... and then I'll move on.

 

Hell, I'm still more frustrated that I didn't get piped off on Sunday night than I am that QPR won.

It is just a game, there are far more important things to worry about. We all get pissed off and frustrated, but the club will still be there next year, maybe in the PL maybe in the championship, but they'll still be there in one form or another.

 

I agree with Frannie, if you really love football, get involved with it at grass roots level and share that passion somewhere that will appreciate it, you'll then realise there really is more to life than BWFC, playing Mortal Kombat and generally acting a bit like a retard

I've not had a solid shit since the weekend.

 

Frankly, that's worrying a bit more than Bolton's opponents next season right now.

 

I'll be very arsed on Sunday.

 

Doodles, you need to have sex with a girl very soon.

Playing in the Premier League isn't the be all and end all of football. Sure it is quintessential, but there are many who would rather us thrive in a lower division rather than rot in and around the relegation zone year in year out. In the end though, football really is just a game.

I'm sorry dids but you need to re-evaluate your thinking on life.

 

If you love football that much, get involved with it you dont have to play football to be involved with football. i was 16 when i did my first coaching badge and its the best decision i have ever made.

I feel the same as dids and i have been involved in football, managing teams from under 8s right through to open age groups because i lived and breathed football. i am no longer involved but the feeling that he is having i have had for the 40 odd years i have followed the whites it never seems to ease up and im now in my 50s.

Playing in the Premier League isn't the be all and end all of football.

 

I agree, but to a lot of our fans now it is.

 

If we go down, a lot of people will stop going....but will they be back if/when we get back into the Premier League? - if so, then surely that makes us no better than Man Utd's glory hunter fans that we all take the piss out of.

Doodles, you need to have sex with a girl very soon.

 

and preferably not one that you are related to....

Not looking forward to Sunday, but really till then, I've got a shit load of other things to fill my head with.

 

Didle, others slate you, but if that's the worst thing, I envy you.

He does have a point; different people feel it more than others, but that dull feeling and impending dread as a game approaches is not good for the spirit.

 

Get the weekend over and done with one way or t'other and roll on the Summer.

I agree, but to a lot of our fans now it is.

 

If we go down, a lot of people will stop going....but will they be back if/when we get back into the Premier League? - if so, then surely that makes us no better than Man Utd's glory hunter fans that we all take the piss out of.

 

I suppose we will see whether the Club's stance on younger fans will pay off or not if we do go down. I personally never get why the crowd matters so much to others. There are only 1000 or so who sing/chant in regularly aren't there? Otherwise you watch the footy for yourself and perhaps you're friends family who you attend with. The rest are just like minded strangers.

How many games do you go a season Dids ?

I understand exactly were you are coming from and have sympathy, my biggest downers were as follows and each one was worse than the last, there were other disappointments mingled in between or after but either I could see them coming a long way off or they never affected me as much as i had other things such as marragies, divorces, affairs, work related stuff, house moves and sales etc going on at the time.

 

1976 West brom pipping us to promotion after we had been in the top 3 all season

1977 Losing the semi of the league cup home leg after doing the hard work away

1977 Forest pipping us when we lost our last two home games

 

From 1979 played non league football and sunday league football for the next few years to do somat else as others have recommended. Tis good advice

 

I came back in the mid to late 80's after my footie career was curtailed by cruciate ligament damage and started to suffer again:

 

1991 play off loss to tranmire at wembley

1992 loss away to Soton in the 5th round of the FA cup

1994 loss at home to oldham in the FA cup

1998 loss away to Chelsea reserves that relegated us - which hurt the most and for me was was the final straw.

 

After that day i sat myself down and gave myself a self psychiatric redaction using many of the suggestions already mentioned. The disappointments still came but they only hurt for the day in question or the morning after. Keep telling yourself its only football and make sure it does not become the only thing you think about.

How can just a game make you feel like this if it was just 22 players kicking a ball around?

 

A season of mixed emotions, mainly bad ones like anger, disappointment and that lost feeling, staring into the sky just hoping things will turn out to be okay.

 

Right now I can't stop thinking of Bolton, when I wake the first thing on my mind is Bolton, throughout the day it's Bolton, seeing other football it's Bolton, I ain't played FIFA 12 since Saturday because I get a really bad feeling inside and it's just too depressing, doubt I'll even watch the Europa League final later on.

 

I try to focus on other things, we're still a few days from 'D-Day' but it feels like it's about to begin, I don't feel anger now, I feel empty, sat sometimes in self pity and anxious of what will happen, you care so much it feels like it's the only thing in your life, in your thoughts.

 

If we stay-up it'll be a mental closure to this torture, though if we drop, I'm not looking forward to the summer, hopefully the Euro's and England can soften the pain (as if, right?)

 

Life is life, much more than football, but it's not just a game, I/we wouldn't feel these emotions if it was.

 

I remember nearly gettin run over when we were last relegated, comin out of the pub oblivious to anything else around me! Thankfully, i don't think i could get that wound up about a game now.

 

Sayin that, this season has had me frettin n sulking more than any other for a long time. I just think i'm glad i support a team where things happen; its exciting and usually after a day or so i can laugh about how s*^% we were!

 

It's when my girlfriend says "It's only a game!" that I feel like killing someone

Edited May 9, 201214 yr by madthatter

I've not had a solid shit since the weekend.

 

Frankly, that's worrying a bit more than Bolton's opponents next season right now.

 

I'll be very arsed on Sunday.

 

Doodles, you need to have sex with a girl very soon.

 

Soggy arsed by the sounds of it

How many games do you go a season Dids ?

 

Just home,

Just home,

 

What you posted above, is how I felt a few years ago about Everton.

 

And without sounding patronising, as I hate that myself from older people. Life is much more than if your football team win or lose, and I have too many more other things going on these days. Which in a way makes me enjoy going Goodison more, as I enjoy it more of a sport than I did, I took it too personally !

 

I agree with Franny, you need to get involved with football, OR do something else with your life.

 

End of the day, no matter what league your in, you will still go, and do the same thing.

lads club will happily take on volunteer coaches to help out, If your first post is anything to demonstrate your passion for football you will love it, its hard work and its taken me 8 years to really love doing it for a living but its been worth it.

Football is more than a game.

Football is more than a game.

 

Indeed. But there's also more to life than football. Just cast your mind back to White Hart Lane.

Football is more than a game.

indeed, it stopped being a game ages ago. It's a business now