Didnāt say it didnāt make me happy. Iām just not as bothered as I used to be.
Itās not that I have āmoved onā as such, but once Chelsea came along with all that money it put me off. Soon after my kids came along and I had less time.
Then Man City came along and I was even more put off.
I donāt feel as attached to the sport anymore. Winning doesnāt give me the same buzz.
When we beat united 4-0 in 1990 football was pretty much everything in my life (along with my mates). Iād go down the sports club after the game and opponent players would sometimes pop in and you could get their autograph. I got barnes, Gillespie and brucie. Paul McGrath and Gary pallister. I even got mark walters autograph once! Nowadays you are lucky if the players wave at you as they speed away in their half a million quid cars.
So yeah, Iām not fussed if we make top 4. My weekends are usually busy now anyway. If united win the league next season, I would be happy for Keith (and the chap who works at my local Tesco who talks football) but I wouldnāt lose sleep over it.
Iād rather go to the cinema nowadays than watch football. If itās a big game Iāll record it and watch it later but otherwise I tend not to bother.
Football is an entertainment. Like the weekly new episode of Mandalorian or whatever. The community aspect has long gone bar the yearly visit to the hospital the players make for a photo shoot. Itās clubs owned by billionaires with a team full of millionaires. Like Hollywood I canāt really relate to it.
Yes you can relate to it. You're here a long time, and you're not afraid to tell us what we're doing right and where there's room for improvement, after practically every single game. And you're also in this thread discussing the league in general. So I don't believe all that nonsense.
I don't want the mancs to win the league, ever. And soon, I'll be celebrating here their decade long quest for it, as much as the locals here celebrate Everton's lack of success in the past 3 decades. The difference of course that you don't expect them to win anything, whereas the Hillsborough singers demand trophies because they're delusional enough to assume that despite their lack of success in that time, they support the biggest club in their world.
Football is a results business, whether the players earn 2 quid or 200k a week, whether the club is run by an oligarch or Ollie from Garston, and it's results that determine everyone's reaction and mood here after games. Nobody was whinging about the sport's issues last year when we were going for 4 trophies because we were getting results, and anyone who dared to raise any questions at all was soon put in their place. Now we're struggling to get European football this year, and everyone here has something to say about it, so things like not enjoying winning big games 7-0 and players not signing autographs is now an issue for people.
It's true that as time goes on, priorities do change as responsibilities increase. But if you want the game to remain exactly as it was when we won 4-0 in 1990, well unfortunately that's not how the sport, or life in general works. It evolves over time, and you either adapt to the new way of doing things or you do something else. I also remember queueing up in the Holiday Inn to get player autographs, with varying success. Now for blindingly obvious reasons, it's not done anymore. But the world moves on, and fans have to move on with it.
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