fox in the sox Posted 14 March 2012 Posted 14 March 2012 After the Birmingham game people are on about the play-offs again and saying it was a wonderful performance! Well it was a good performance but I think we benefitted from them tiring towards the end and in patches we were poor. After every win there is mass hysteria and after every defeat there is total dejection. It just seems too much to me. Is it worse this season or have football fans always been like this?
foxesfan1989 Posted 14 March 2012 Posted 14 March 2012 Does feel like people overreact to every result. But football is such an emotional game. A lot of emotions tied up in the club for us and i understand the reactions. Logically and objectively we shouldn't get so carried away or so dejected. But thats football, and i don't think we are unique in our reactions.
Captain... Posted 14 March 2012 Posted 14 March 2012 After the Birmingham game people are on about the play-offs again and saying it was a wonderful performance! Well it was a good performance but I think we benefitted from them tiring towards the end and in patches we were poor. After every win there is mass hysteria and after every defeat there is total dejection. It just seems too much to me. Is it worse this season or have football fans always been like this? I think what you are experiencing is the internet persona phenomenom where people exagerrate their feelings when posting on an internet forum, partly to gain a reaction and partly because rational comments often get lost in the screaming monkeys flinging faeces. That and the negative nellies shout loudest after a defeat, and the over the top optimists shout louder after a victory, I don't think I posted between Reading defeat and Brum pre-match, it's too depressing on here and I have a season pass on the optimistic bus. I am sure the negative sorts likewise disappear into the woodwork after a good win. You just have to learn to put your moron filter on and tone out the rhetoric and over-exagerration and you will normally find some truth hidden in there somewhere.
foxfanazer Posted 14 March 2012 Posted 14 March 2012 I think what you are experiencing is the internet persona phenomenom where people exagerrate their feelings when posting on an internet forum, partly to gain a reaction and partly because rational comments often get lost in the screaming monkeys flinging faeces. That and the negative nellies shout loudest after a defeat, and the over the top optimists shout louder after a victory, I don't think I posted between Reading defeat and Brum pre-match, it's too depressing on here and I have a season pass on the optimistic bus. I am sure the negative sorts likewise disappear into the woodwork after a good win. You just have to learn to put your moron filter on and tone out the rhetoric and over-exagerration and you will normally find some truth hidden in there somewhere. This! I swear people just post things to provoke a reaction sometimes to fill a void in ther lives. PEARSON OUT!!!! (joking)
burni Posted 14 March 2012 Posted 14 March 2012 I completely agree, its like its make more break every game. A few games ago we could afford around 3 losses and still make play offs, after losing one of those it was instant, the teams not good enough, Nigel out, sell all the players blah blah blah, win one game all of sudden its we have the best team in the league were going to win the fa cup with play offs as a bonus Its quite comical really, glad to say I've got out that way of thinking. I think its been more this season than ever
Corky Posted 14 March 2012 Posted 14 March 2012 After the Birmingham game people are on about the play-offs again and saying it was a wonderful performance! Well it was a good performance but I think we benefitted from them tiring towards the end and in patches we were poor. After every win there is mass hysteria and after every defeat there is total dejection. It just seems too much to me. Is it worse this season or have football fans always been like this?
Wherethefoxhat? Posted 14 March 2012 Posted 14 March 2012 "Some people think that football is a matter of life & death,i am very disappointed with that attitude.I can assure you it is much,much more important than that " Bill Shankley. Liverpool Manager 1959 - 1974
Lobsterboyuk Posted 14 March 2012 Posted 14 March 2012 From wikipedia: the Oxford dictionary and other recognized sources define "fan" as a shortened version of the word fanatic i.e. fa·nat·ic/fəˈnatik/ Noun: A person filled with excessive and single-minded zeal, esp. for an extreme religious or political cause or the world's best football team, Leicester City Anybody who doesn't share my fanaticism then enjoy your pit of despair...
dave the caveman Posted 14 March 2012 Posted 14 March 2012 I completely agree, its like its make more break every game. A few games ago we could afford around 3 losses and still make play offs, after losing one of those it was instant, the teams not good enough, Nigel out, sell all the players blah blah blah, win one game all of sudden its we have the best team in the league were going to win the fa cup with play offs as a bonus Its quite comical really, glad to say I've got out that way of thinking. I think its been more this season than ever I sighed as I read this. Sighed, and then smiled. And then an elongated puff of air escaped between my lips, sending a paper shuffle whisper of twisting white noise to the other side of the room where my significant other, freshly bathed and applying talcum powder, registered that I had reacted to something and made an impulsive but soft, gentle enquiry as to what had provoked it. "Oh nothing, dear" I announced as my eyes searched my local horizon for signs of steam which gave away the position of my cup of tea, "I was just reading foxestalk and spotted some irony" I continued. "Oh right" said the mrs, losing interest. "Yes dear, it was the poster burni, in a thread concerning exaggerated reactions to recent results, he both claimed he had got out of the habit of exaggerating, while at the same time actually exaggerating the exaggerations of others." Out of the corner of my eye I noticed my explanation had not stimulated a single sense within the brain of Mrs Caveman, so I stopped. After a short pause she said "oh" and so I continued: "yes, you see he said that people had suggested we should sell all the players, which is simply not true, and he also said that people had suggested we are the best team in he world, which again is not true." "Oh ok", said the Mrs in monotone, "so he said he doesn't exaggerate while exaggerating?" she asked. "Yes." "And you find that amusing, or what?" "Slightly." "You really are a sad little man, Dave." "I know." - The End -
Zingari Posted 14 March 2012 Posted 14 March 2012 football is just theatre , always was always will be ( hopefully)
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