Expecting a full on boonami if we are losing at half time this evening. Probably riots if we lose the game
There is this delusion we are different to any other fans. We aren’t. All fans are like this. Watch any other team and they get the same stick. Clubs want fans to have ambition because support is built around hope, so they can’t complain when below average products are received poorly. You could argue that arena sports are the last bastion of the theatre of the middle ages. Heroes cheered on, failures booed and decried, villains lambasted. Honestly, I think it is boring when we say our fans should behave in such and such a way. Let people outpour their emotions and enjoy the catharsis of this ludicrous activity if watching 22 strangers kick a ball about as if it matters. Obviously within reason - not condoning vile behaviour here!
As a relatively positive person I do find it quite strange. If you spend all day moaning and worrying about the game and then at halftime lose your head and get angry, I feel you are just wasting energy. For example, we could be 1-0 down after 10 mins. You spend the next 35 mins to half time being angry and the 15 min break. We win the game 2-1. All you have done is waste negative energy for over an hour. Alternatively, you could believe/hope/pray/manifest that we will win anyway and not have wasted all that negative energy. Worst case scenario we still lose and you then vent, saving yourself an hour or so of negativity. Trust me, life will be happier overall, even if there end result is the same #No7LifeCoach
Loose and the needle could be on the stops with much wailing, moaning and gnashing of teeth. Phone screens will be covered in foam flecked spittle and the level of invective will wake the dead. Win and we'll be basking in the warm glow of achievement, hugging strangers whilst assuring all and sundry that only a positive outcome was predicted never minrd whatever had been posted on pre match social media disgraces.
Last time I had a cartharsis fitted the bloody thing leaked and I ended up soaked and stinking of urine.
I’d say we are different to a lot of fans in that we are a lot more tolerant and laid back than a lot of fan bases. How do you think some fan bases would’ve reacted to last season as an example. Didn’t Everton fans block their players leaving the stadium after they lost to us? We still had a lap of honour at the end of the last home game last season I think I find it pretty embarrassing some behaviour from fans but then football isn’t the be all and end all for me like it is for some people. I tend to find the ultra positive people far more annoying/deluded than the ultra negative but each to their own. I’d imagine every club would want their fanbase to be ultra positive because they’ll buy any old **** released by the club and interpret it in the most positive way possible
Yeah but you’ve just shifted the hour of negativity to after the game rather than during it? If I’m moaning because we are losing all game but then we win I’m happy after the game. The positive person has wasted loads of energy during the game being positive when we are losing, then we lose and they are then negative. Both these scenarios involve being negative, just at different points
Such a polarised view isn't typical or representative. For some every silver lining has a cloud and all dogs are black. I prefer to take an optimistic view then throw a few ****s at a negative result.
I think this is spot on. The ultra-negative fan is irritating to stand near at the ground but quite amusing on the internet. The ultra-positive fan is fine at the ground but then turns their positivity into moaning about the fans - which is another form of negativity! I feel like we should just let people boo or shout or cheer of clap or sleep or leave early and not let it bother us. They spent their money and so they get to respond however they want to the game.
There used to be a bloke where we used to sit who moaned from the first minute to the last. When we had played well or even won he wasn't happy. From the manager to individual players all at the top of his voice so that everyone around got the benefit of his football knowledge. He used to drive my wife mad. In the end she said she didn't want come anymore so I had to shut up.
But the negative person has been negative before. during and after, the positive person only after the game. No wasted energy on negativity. Being positive for longer is better for your mental well being But I do get we are all different. I try not to happy clap, but also try not to lose my crap over when all is said and done is a game of football. That said, I wouldn't let Mrs No7 talk to me for an hour after the Ipswich game and she thought I had developed Tourettes
At times such as this, I instinctively reach for my copy of Rudyard Kipling's poem 'IF'. It's in a big hard-backed book, that I can use as a handy weapon in any close quarters non-virtual argument
My negatives are the needless dangerous passing around the back and the lack of tempo getting forward. Don't pass around the back when there's an opposition striker ready to pounce on the ball. I'm not suggesting route one but the occasional wallop up the pitch will keep the opposing defenders on their toes and keep the opposing strikers honest.
I think 4 times is an underestimate although it could be interspersed with a number of other short and to the point expletives. Some comments on the referee's parental situation may included as appropriate.
