Lets just beg to differ on this subject. I'm right, your right lets have a beer I'm off to bed now Syd, enjoy your day
There's too much pigeon-holing done on this support the team stuff. Many go for the football and if it is dire they start to find reasons not to go, they still support their team, but simple support isn't enough. Then you get those who do not go for the football, it's the social, singing, seeing mates element, first and foremost, as has been said on here. But even they drop off when that is disrupted. Personally, I cannot see how the football, at a football match, isn't centre stage.
I think for most people lots of those things are intertwined, supporting a football team is actually quite a complicated system. I would say that I tend towards social, but that doesn't stop me being absolutely passionate and caring intensely about how well City do. While I'm there football is centre stage, but the quality of the football isn't something on its own that would ever stop me going, whereas other things might. You're right it's not easy to pigeonhole.
If you don't enjoy it then don't go but you don't have a right to be entertained, its professional sport not a theatre production. Entertainment is entirely subjective anyway, I would never go and watch tennis because its terminally boring, that doesn't stop others enjoying it.
entertainment to me could be a crunching tackle. It doesn't have to be winger beating 3 men. What pisses me off is when they put more effort in the warm-up than they do whilst playing.
Tell you what mate, if you've ever watched a 5 setter from Murray, Nadal, Federer or Novak you would see how lifeless our footballers are. the tennis players are out on their feet. IMO footballers nowadays are so weighed down with wads of cash in their pockets that they can barely muster a jog.
