We all have enough problems in life, so why do we do it to ourselves?

[East Green I 83]

After today's game, and looking back over the previous 800 or so I have attended, I asked myself that question (again!!) ....WHY?
Aren't hobbies/pastimes etc meant to be enjoyable/fulfilling/rewarding etc etc?
After most matches I leave RH with a banging headache, sore throat, and an overall feeling of frustration!
So really, why do we do it?

 

[Thundersley Blue]

Because it is our local team. Wouldn't life be boring if we won every game rather than draw a game we should have won.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Because it's a drug, and like most drugs, it's addictive.

 

[East Green I 83]

And as is generally accepted, drugs are bad for your health.....And drugs are meant to give you a "high"? I reckon I have experienced a lot more "lows"!! .......Like most of us though I keep going back for more. So why?

 

[OldBlueLady]

Because the highs make you forget the lows, and we've had some incredible highs in the last 3 years...Wembley - twice, promotion.

 

[manor15]

And as is generally accepted, drugs are bad for your health.....And drugs are meant to give you a "high"? I reckon I have experienced a lot more "lows"!! .......Like most of us though I keep going back for more. So why?

If you're still asking why after 23rd May 2015 then I don't think you'll ever understand.

 

[East Green I 83]

Fair point. I obviously remember that:smile: Just that those "highs" are so far and few between it is a miracle that we all keep perservering ....but we do.

 

[Bearded Shrimper]

Coz what the hell else would you do with your Saturday otherwise?

 

[RHB]

I think the answer is probably in your user name. Make the short trip over to the West Stand. Headaches and sore throats are optional there. Frustration tends to be universal wherever you sit. Seriously, I haven't a clue why we keep going until I watch things like Lenny's second half surge forward, or McGlashan skinning full backs, or Woody slamming home a goal and me leaping upwards as a result. It's instinctive I guess. Oh, and were else could I see 1800 miserable Millwall faithful leaving before the end of a thumping, and that's just this season.

 

[delr]

football/booze/fags/women(or men) = LIFE - great innit :smile:

 

[Floval Flyer]

Because it's a drug, and like most drugs, it's addictive.

And not good for your health :dim:

 

[Harry Bullocks]

Blue through and through...always

 

[leeblue]

Community, loyalty, passion

 

[buffalowolf]

And as a supporter from so far away i get to feel all those things ( mostly lows ) when reading all your threads:nope::sad: .

 

[Ex-Member1]

The incredible highs, joy and excitement I have felt over 58 years of supporting our beloved team far, far outweigh the lows. Like a stick of rock, the name of our team runs through my body. Nothing will ever change that. COYBB

 

[Lord Football]

We do it to ourselves for the 122nd Wembley goal, Freddy v Man Utd, Benjy at Bury. Those moments that don't come around often, not even once a season, that make it worth it.

If those things happened all the time we wouldn't appreciate them. They just become the norm. We become Man United or Arsenal or something.

 

[ace]

Its real like life. Mostly dull, often crap, but with occasional moments of ecstasy. If you want something untouchable, remote and obscene, look at following the Premiersh!te.

 

[Gt Yarmouth Shrimper]

Because the highs make you forget the lows, and we've had some incredible highs in the last 3 years...Wembley - twice, promotion.

Good point and the highs we have experienced in the last 13 years are the envy of many a football supporter up and down the land.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

Football should be a passion, it is for me, without passion we are automatons?
The pint and chat before kick off - home and away. The choice of team selection, the chap chatter on us and them. The rumours, gossip, slander, humour. The highs and lows, success and disappointment.
Post match dissection. Getting hot (occassionally), cold, and wet. Keeping calm when it is kicking off, ignoring the numpty just down the stand, suffering the power crazed stewards, interpreting the loud speaker blurb.
A home win is very good but AN away win, against the odds on a hell frozen over day "Up North" etc is always, always a triumph to recall. Tickets for Rochdale? I will be there!

 

[lombard]

Perhaps Uncle Ron had a headache,how to try and balance the books,and flabbergast the council !!!