Interesting read

A still more surprising side-effect of my depression is that it took a period of mental illness to inject a temporary note of sanity into my football-watching. Like every fan, I want to believe that my being at a game somehow has an impact; that if I wasn't there, something different would have happened. Any correlation between me wearing a lucky shirt, shouting at a referee to give a penalty or booing John Terry to make him lose his rag and get sent off is, of course, accidental. And yet part of the collective delusion of being a fan is the notion that your participation and involvement can make an incremental difference. By willing something enough, you can get what you want. It's like being an American for 90 minutes."