How emotional do you get about football?

[No Fixed Abode]

Does it make or break your weekend?
Do you not care so much now that you're older?
Have you ever deleted someone as a friend on Facebook for mocking your team even if you're mature enough to not be so gay?

[T.R.O.L.I.]

Does it make or break your weekend? No
Do you not care so much now that you're older? Not so much "not care as much", more so come to realise there's more important things in life
Have you ever deleted someone as a friend on Facebook for mocking your team even if you're mature enough to not be so gay? As if

[Compo's Hat]

Have you ever deleted someone as a friend on Facebook for mocking your team even if you're mature enough to not be so gay?

Tredder's deleted floyd because of this

[Fluff]

Can never understand how the pundits on soccer saturday, get so worked up. Ads to the entertainment of course.

[M-U-R-T-Y]

Can never understand how the pundits on soccer saturday, get so worked up. Ads to the entertainment of course.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF_uOgyBK1c

[Mr Angry]

Does it make or break your weekend? Not anymore

Do you not care so much now that you're older? Its not an age thing; its a "More things that are important in life" thing.

Have you ever deleted someone as a friend on Facebook for mocking your team even if you're mature enough to not be so gay? I wouldn't have done that 10 years ago let alone now.

No doubt Kes has started this thread so that he can proclaim that all Reading fans are plastics and that you aren't a REAL fan unless you are suicidal if you don't win every game, and if anyone who "disses" (is that the right phraseolgy on the streets these days???) your team fails to instantly become your mortal enemy; if so, good fishing.

[Silver Fox]

My guess would actually be that someone off of here has delete him from faceyb for being nearly as tedious on there as he is on here

[Tredder]

Have you ever deleted someone as a friend on Facebook for mocking your team even if you're mature enough to not be so gay?

Tredder's deleted floyd because of this

I think that's a vaLOLid deletion.

[roadrunner]

Does it make or break your weekend?

It used to. It used to mean everything. Now I couldn't give a toss.

That's largely because of all the greed in the game now. Our players that we felt we had a bond with and knew so well became very selfish. The way Shorey for example handled himself and couldn't give a toss in his final season here because we wanted to keep a hold of him. The way the players stropped about the pitch, moaning at one another, putting the blame elsewhere for their mistakes. Also the frustrating lack of investment from the chairman when we finished 8th in the best league in the world, a great opportunity to push on and establish ourselves in the top flight - wasted. Thrown away even.

I've not enjoyed football since. The bug isn't there any more. I go when I feel like it but I used to go because I couldn't miss a game. I'd think nothing of driving Leeds to Reading, Reading to Leeds twice a week. Now I'm 4 miles away and can't always be bothered to get the bus.

I just don't enjoy football any more. The money in the game has ruined it for me.

[cmonurz]

Would agree with the general sentiment that my interest in the game has waned in line with the mercenary approach of some of the world’s best players to their clubs – first one that springs to mind is Wayne Rooney effectively demanding £200,000 a week not to join Man City, which brings me on to Carlos Tevez refusing to do what he is fcuking told for a few hours a week, for £1m a month before tax. Pay in the game has grown exponentially, so it is now possible to become very wealthy at a very young age, without actually being a top level (say international) player.

I look at the US and the pay in Major League or the NBA dwarfs even some Premier League salaries – but the difference is that these athletes in the main treat their employers and fans with the utmost respect and perform their duties as ambassadors of their sport and team. There are very few such ambassadors in English football.

[RobRoyal]

It used to mean everything. Now I couldn't give a toss. That's largely because of all the greed in the game now.

Also the frustrating lack of investment from the chairman when we finished 8th in the best league in the world.

The money in the game has ruined it for me.

Something about this doesn't add up for me.

[cmonurz]

Would agree with the general sentiment that my interest in the game has waned in line with the mercenary approach of some of the world’s best players to their clubs – first one that springs to mind is Wayne Rooney effectively demanding £200,000 a week not to join Man City, which brings me on to Carlos Tevez refusing to do what he is fcuking told for a few hours a week, for £1m a month before tax. Pay in the game has grown exponentially, so it is now possible to become very wealthy at a very young age, without actually being a top level (say international) player.

I look at the US and the pay in Major League or the NBA dwarfs even some Premier League salaries – but the difference is that these athletes in the main treat their employers and fans with the utmost respect and perform their duties as ambassadors of their sport and team. There are very few such ambassadors in English football.

Wasn't it NBA players that showed their employers and fans respect by going on strike and missing the first few rounds of fixtures over pay deals?

Depends how you define ‘strike’, really.

In fact, the answer is no. NBA owners imposed a lockout when the players’ union refused to accept the loss of up to £120bn in salaries over the next 6 years as part of the new collective bargaining agreement.

[YateleyRoyal]

It used to mean a lot more when I went to games on a more regular basis.

Nowadays the period between 5-630 on a Saturday I get a bit annoyed if we've lost, only because I'm usually commentating and dont have time to check the Royals score until after my match has finished. Therefore I dont get to follow the game in progress, only get the stark truth of the final score.

[TBM]

Can never understand how the pundits on soccer saturday, get so worked up. Ads to the entertainment of course.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGI-Avp9sME

[No Fixed Abode]

My guess would actually be that someone off of here has delete him from faceyb for being nearly as tedious on there as he is on here

A few links regarding Suarezg8 and bird beater Downing, along with some deb8 and a 'Liverpool fan' has deleted me.

[southbank1871]

Does it make or break your weekend?

It used to. It used to mean everything. Now I couldn't give a toss.

That's largely because of all the greed in the game now. Our players that we felt we had a bond with and knew so well became very selfish. The way Shorey for example handled himself and couldn't give a toss in his final season here because we wanted to keep a hold of him. The way the players stropped about the pitch, moaning at one another, putting the blame elsewhere for their mistakes. Also the frustrating lack of investment from the chairman when we finished 8th in the best league in the world, a great opportunity to push on and establish ourselves in the top flight - wasted. Thrown away even.

I've not enjoyed football since. The bug isn't there any more. I go when I feel like it but I used to go because I couldn't miss a game. I'd think nothing of driving Leeds to Reading, Reading to Leeds twice a week. Now I'm 4 miles away and can't always be bothered to get the bus.

I just don't enjoy football any more. The money in the game has ruined it for me.

Christ Jay, how many fukking times have you posted this shit?

[Silver Fox]

He thinks if Sir john reads it enough times he'll eventually snap and buy Messi

[who are ya?]

Football is just an excuse to have a gr8 day out

[Svlad Cjelli]

Enjoy away matches far, far, more than the antiseptic, anodyne home matches, but get less emotional than I used to when younger - partly the perspective that comes with age and partly as a self-defence mechanism as I've been hurt so many times before.

TBH I tend to get more annoyed and emotional with what happens off the patch than on it these days.

[Red]

Does it make or break your weekend?
Do you not care so much now that you're older?
Have you ever deleted someone as a friend on Facebook for mocking your team even if you're mature enough to not be so gay?

LOL @ mocking someone elses team. Surely you're also mature enough to grow out of that