I No Longer Love Soccer

I No Longer Love Soccer

I am giving up on football / soccer.

It just seems to waste my time, energy, drive, and ambition. It gives me terrible, humiliating, depressing, miserable times, and is getting worse by the season.

The final straw is this season’s Scottish club performances in Europe.

In the olden days Scottish clubs punched above their weight. There were amazing wins against Barcelona, Real Madrid, big English clubs, big German clubs, big French clubs, big Italian clubs, and big Dutch clubs.

Scotland had two giant clubs that could boast of being as big as any club in the World.

Even the smaller Scottish clubs often beat European giants.

Scottish clubs would hold their own.

But this season, Rangers lost to a Polish club, I had never heard of. Hearts got humiliated by Sturm Graz, and Benfica. And then the final straw. Glasgow Celtic a club who have utterly dominated Scottish football for a decade and a half, managed to throw away a 4 goal lead against a club from Austria, that to be honest I had barely even heard of before.

Football just seems to be about humiliating Scotland now.

About 30 years ago it started that every single season there was at least one utterly humiliating result like losing to a part time team from a tiny country. Or one of the bigger Scottish clubs getting utterly slaughtered by a big European side.

But now it seems to be more often. Now it seems rare when a Scottish club do not do a humiliating scoreline. It is just humiliation after humiliation, after humiliation.

The football sport results just seem to want Scotland to suffer.

Scotland is getting worse and worse at club football.

Despite Scotland being the most football obsessed country in Europe we perform way below what we should do.

I have given up. I am broken as a football fan. I realise football just wastes my time, brain power and happiness, for no good reason.

I devoted by money, time, identity, personality, and intellectual energy to a game that my country fails at, and that seems to hate me.

 

But it goes deeper than that;

1.      The sort of people who like football often do not seem to get on with me.

2.      I have not made many friends from football.

3.      But above all football makes me unhappy, because the results are consistently and increasingly miserable, humiliating, and terrible.

4.      I could cope with the lack of friends towards me, if we won. But now we just lose and lose bad.

5.      We used to be rivals with England. Now there are 3^rd tier English sides who would be favourites against the Old Firm. It is awful.

6.      I am not xenophobic. I do not hate English people. Most of my friends are English. But I was passionate about the Scottish v English rivalry. We used to have small Scottish clubs beating English sides. Now even Celtic and Rangers boast when they get a narrow defeat to a average English side.

7.      Football just makes me miserable. I am going to be a more passionate fan of films, and culture, than football. Why should I waste my time watching 2 hours of a humiliating defeat? Why? I prefer films. From films you can be entertained, moved, support the good character, or learn real information.

8.      Why should I send my money to a sport that just makes me miserable and depressed?

9.      Scottish football has terrible TV rights, which means it cannot compete with bigger countries. So it will get worse and worse, and worse.

10.  While English football is the wealthiest and most popular league on the planet.

11.  My favourite teams also lose. I support Aberdeen. But they hardly ever win trophies. While humiliatingly Glasgow Celtic win virtually every Scottish trophy and then go into Europe, and lose to a team I had barely heard of before.

12.  I support all Scottish clubs in Europe, regardless. So it is miserable watching how they do.

13.  The league is legendarily uncompetitive. With going back to 1985 to find a team other than Celtic or Rangers who win the league title. And even now it is basically just Glasgow Celtic won win the league.

14.  But above all it is a waste of my time. Football just seems to be about hurting Scottish people in the most humiliating way imaginable. Particularly Scottish people who want Scotland to do well at club football.

15.  I cannot see it getting better. It will just get worse and worse.

16.  How much of my money have I wasted on football particularly Scottish football, for no benefit to my happiness.

 

My blog will now no longer be about football. I have given up on it. I will review films or other stuff. But football is no longer my passion. I wasted too much time on it.