Shouldn’t supporting a football team be fun?

I couldn't resist lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unkIVvjZc9Y&feature=related

plus Juan.

when we pulverise Perth and smash Sydney I look foward to you doomsayers changing your tune..

Feeling poetic today?

We'll also nuke Newcastle and crush Central Coast...

I have been to all the home games sober this season (side effect of volunteering to work match days at the BB) and I have been a lot more conscious of my fellow supporters and there actions.

OK ... maul Melbourne

same old fever always whining

Not always the case. Coming in on the train last weekend I heard a woman say she just came for the crowd entertainment and the score was irrelevant

an 11-10 football match would have all of Welly coming back for more, whereas 4-3 in a rugby game is impossible.

I was hoping no one would pick up on that after i wrote "vice versa"

I felt rather pedantic writing that to be honest, I don't know why but I felt the clown face alleviated some of that

Neither do we
brumbys2008-09-20 21:05:07

Late to this thread. Looking at the question "Shouldn�t supporting a football team be fun?'
I've been watching football for thirty eight years and my answer would be "no idea whatsoever!"

I can tell you what it has been. Based around mostly. Stop Out,Everton and since last year Phoenix.
Thrilling, emotional, depressing, uplifting. boring, frustrating, exciting, dull, why did I bother, of course I'll be there, I love football, I hate football, you can stick football, I came all this way for this. I came all this way for THIS, gooooallll, ref look at your linesman, don't ask....  , it was brilliant.


Summed up by...(After Everton got beat 7-0 by Arsenal) getting a call, in Lower Hutt, from an an Arsenal fan in a taxi in Genoa with her and her Italian friends chanting down the phone "7-0, 7-0, 7-0"  You had to laugh!!


First game I remember was Stop Out's first National League game way back in 1970.

I know the FFT forums are full of idiots, it does hurt when they start calling the Nix sh*t and saying 'They should GTFO of our competition.'

Same old bobboltontawa2 - always talking rubbish

Supporting your team is nothing to do with fun.

Going to the pub pre-game is fun. Eating a crap pie and hanging out with your mates is fun. looking forward to the next match is fun. Making the trek to away games is fun (shame all ours are in Oz, because away games are easily the best part of watchng your team), but those bastard 90 minutes watching your team trying to do anything but make you happy, is rarely ever fun....

I find it all fun. Its fun to watch football. Whats the point otherwise? You can go to the pub,hang out with mates and travel to australia,all withouth watching football

I had fun tonight...

my eyes were straying to the Freestyle that ws on the next tv at Kings. Then I think I ended up watching the breakdancing

As someone who sits just next to the Zone not in it, it has been noticeable that the atmosphere is not as good this season.  Given what we're watching it's hardly surprising, but in adversity that is what usually brings the best out of football fans.  So where are the new and witty chants?  Why are we still just re-hashing the same three or four chants all the time?  It clearly isn't fun at the moment.  Even the pubs are not the same pre-match.  And now the bloody rugby team will fill the stadium on Friday night and those people will give us a miss on Sunday because we're a joke. 

There are several new, and very good chants but no one seems to join in when they get pulled out.

I was going to go more with...start some yourself then,and stop relying on and telling everyone else to generate an atmosphere for you

Kind of what  I was going to say. I am fairly new to the Phoenix, and while the chants of "Same old Aussies, always cheating", and "She fell over..." were funny the first couple of times, it's gotten pretty boring already! Especially several times a match.

Surely Mark Bosnich deserved some abuse the other week along the lines of "Sumo, sumo" or "you fat b**tard, you fat b**tard"??

Of course, the current fare on the pitch doesn't help. It is hard to have fun and get a crowd going when the team look like they are going through the motions and no more.

Too fat to take your own goal kicks.

Score from our owner, you're here to score...

You can't afford your cocaine...anymore.

Alll were going in the zone at times, along with four or five other Bosnich related chants.  In injury time you can quite clearly hear the first one on the TV coverage.

what's fun is ...I'm supporting the only professional football team in New Zealand, its bloody here in Wellington where I live, I get the chance to share a bit of passion and exuberance (occasionally!)... when we're in the Ring of Fire,those rare moments of unified bliss when Phoenix score are incredible... when the lot of us are up on our feet, yelling with delight (remember those moments??) and when the Phoenix win, we ALL win.
...fronting up on game day...  despite the weather, despite the hangover from the night before,finding the money to pay for the tickets, the faulty car AND finding parking for said car, or catching the right train to get there on time, the work commitments, family, visitors,etc and any other reason we could have let stop us from turning out BUT DIDN"T!! ...and why?? ..all because those of us that care about football in general in this country (and the Phoenix in Wellington in particular) feel we are part of something good ...that could grow to something GREAT in time...
Now THAT would be fun!

Personally, I'm loving it!

...and then there was the time I supported Asante Kotoko for a day. Stuck in there big old concrete bowl of a ground.  Anyway they were 1-0 down when their sub came  on (injury) in about 90+5 and scored with his FIRST (and only) touch. So I'm jumping up and down like a mad thing when a group of guys charge toward me, ( EEK thought I ) and mobbed me. NUTS, a pyramid of people on top of me!! Why? Who knows. It's football innit.  

...and another thing. My teams Stop Out, Everton and Phoenix. First game I remember going to is 1970...so let's use 1970 as the marker. Roughly (in total) 75 seasons since then....  In that time these teams have won FIVE top tier trophies. One every fifteen seasons.
dairyflat2008-09-22 18:49:37

Dairyflat = massive jinx!

double postitis.
kiwi pie2008-09-22 21:24:40

...I feel hurt now. All those miles getting to games, standing in southerlies, crammed on to horrible old terraces,  and. all along, it's all been my fault. ..  

The highlight of the game on sunday was the final whistle. Even when we lost last year, i still loved watching the games, now they are terrible to watch, woeful

Check the British Football forum, I'll try and find the thread and bump it.