Is anyone else simply not bothered anymore?

I don’t know about losing interest, but the way I feel at the moment I don’t think I’ll be bothered if we go down.

Never ever thought I’d say that.
 
Glover_elbow said:
I hate the way football is going from the top downwards cant stand what the premier league has become. Still want the boro to do well but it doesn't ruin my weekend anymore when they dont. The club is an absolute shambles my expectations are at an all time low
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I hate everything about the PL & the farce Champions League too, football, IMHO, is finished as something I enjoy, only have interest for the Boro, like you it doesn't affect me as it once did when we lose, could be an age thing mind
 
Haven't been since 2011 and cant see me returning.
Love all things Boro and sport in particular but no interest in the way the game is.
Going. Been watchining local Rugby for years.
Amateur games for me.
 
One thing I always try to bear in mind is that in late 90s-early noughties, we didn’t complain about “level playing fields”. Back when we could afford to make a third/fourth choice Italian international striker the highest paid player in the league. We were able to bring a player who’d lost his starting slot at Arsenal to the second tier by paying him more than their new star striker, widely considered one of the best players in the world. We then made a Croatian star in the twilight of his career the highest paid player in the league too.

It’s all relative. We had our time with the big bucks, but unless you’re a big club in a big historical footballing city (Manchester/Liverpool and to a lesser extent London), the sun always sets on it eventually.
 
Anyone being able to spend anything is more of a level playing field than the current Financial Fair Play system. That is designed to keep the big clubs big. How can we compete with another club that is allowed to spend more than us even when we can afford to spend more? In the long run it is impossible for us to be as big as Utd, Liverpool etc. because our revenues will never match theirs. We could get lucky and put together a squad of overachievers and do well for a couple of seasons but eventually the big teams will just pick that squad apart.
 
I still care about Boro of course and would be devastated if we go down but beyond my own club my interest in football is in serious decline.

I couldn’t care less about the PL and purposely ignore PL games because the money-obsessed PL has ruined the sport and I am sick of seeing obscenely overpaid spoilt brats and prima donnas posing around and effectively actually running the game. Can you imagine the likes of Cloughie, Shankly, Joe Mercer, Jack Charlton and Bill Nicholson putting up with that?

The recent showing of the 66 World Cup Final on tv in which the players were immaculately behaved, only served to show how unappealing current top flight football and many of its players and their WAGs have become.

That said, maybe it’s an age thing because it isn’t just football with me, it’s increasingly life in general. Shallow celebrity culture, which includes footballers of course, has taken over every day life. Every day some celebrity is preaching to us about something, normally through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or whatever. Just as I am bored with and sick of seeing obscenely overpaid young footballers actually running the game I am also bored with and sick of seeing overpaid and often talentless celebrities grinning inanely out at me from my TV and telling me how I must live my life.
 
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Foggysfplandiet3 said:
Shallow celebrity culture, which includes footballers of course, has taken over every day life. Every day some celebrity is preaching to us about something. Just as I am bored with and sick of seeing obscenely overpaid young footballers actually running the game I am also bored with and sick of seeing overpaid and often talentless celebrities grinning inanely out at me from my TV and telling me how I must live my life.
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Amen
 
boromike85 said:
Anyone being able to spend anything is more of a level playing field than the current Financial Fair Play system. That is designed to keep the big clubs big. How can we compete with another club that is allowed to spend more than us even when we can afford to spend more? In the long run it is impossible for us to be as big as Utd, Liverpool etc. because our revenues will never match theirs. We could get lucky and put together a squad of overachievers and do well for a couple of seasons but eventually the big teams will just pick that squad apart.
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City are being penalised by that though.

I think one thing which has contributed is the 7 subs rule. Good players at smaller clubs get hoovered up by the big clubs to fill their benches. Back in the 90s that couldn’t happen as they only needed 2/3 subs on the bench.
 
Foggysfplandiet3 said:
I still care about Boro of course and would be devastated if we go down but beyond my own club my interest in football is in serious decline.

I couldn’t care less about the PL and purposely ignore PL games because the money-obsessed PL has ruined the sport and I am sick of seeing obscenely overpaid spoilt brats and prima donnas posing around and effectively actually running the game. Can you imagine the likes of Cloughie, Shankly, Joe Mercer, Jack Charlton and Bill Nicholson putting up with that?

The recent showing of the 66 World Cup Final on tv in which the players were immaculately behaved, only served to show how unappealing current top flight football and many of its players and their WAGs have become.

That said, maybe it’s an age thing because it isn’t just football with me, it’s increasingly life in general. Shallow celebrity culture, which includes footballers of course, has taken over every day life. Every day some celebrity is preaching to us about something. Just as I am bored with and sick of seeing obscenely overpaid young footballers actually running the game I am also bored with and sick of seeing overpaid and often talentless celebrities grinning inanely out at me from my TV and telling me how I must live my life.
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Great post foggy👍
 
Foggy I know this sounds bizarre but I have actually got rid of my telly . Seriously you won’t miss it.
Defo a mid life crisis thing as I refuse to pay a license to the BBC
 
I don't have a telly either and I'm lucky that my wife has no interest in all that nonsense either. It means I don't know who most of the celebrities that fill those gossip magazines are. These days, though, you can watch things on your phone or your laptop and that's how I do occasionally watch a game without being there in person.

Or at least that's what I tried to do yesterday. Of course I was let down with that and we were three down before I gave up. I was surprised how much I did care about being able to see the game, but not surprised about how little I cared about getting beat. I'm of the age where I'm fairly accepting of the ebbs and flows of our league position and if next year is a return to the third tier then generally I'm not bothered. Except I know I will care passionately in the game where our fate hangs in the balance. Once it's over, I'll have moved on before the players have packed their Gucci washbags.

Yesterday, I should have been at a Euro 2020 game in Hungary. I'd have loved that. As I would have done watching the other games of that day with a mate in a quiet bar somewhere in Budapest. So clearly the game hasn't lost me altogether at the higher, commercially driven levels. I enjoy lower level ground hopping too, with the fewer fans the better.

So there we are, a mass of contradictions. I'm rarely bothered about football, but there are still times when I enjoy it very much.
 
Yes, I miss playing too, tickertape. Last had a game of five a side with the lads from work about eighteen months ago and knacked my big toe. The pain was far outweighed though by the near perfect pass that I put between two defenders for someone to collect and score. That's the pleasure that we get from the game.
 
Good while since I last played mate,theyve all packed up, although one who goes to the match with us suggested walking football but we laughed it off. Not sure we will when we meet up again. Played 11-a-side till I was 48 too.
 
it doesn't ruin the weekend like it used to when I was younger, I guess when you get older your priorities change,it does hurt to see the mess the club is in at the moment. Unless we get a proper manager in i can see us doing a Bolton and that would be disastrous for the town.
 
Human reaction to what is happening is natural. i think that reaction differs depending on how you deal with it. Some will be drawn into apathy which is understandable. It’s a way of avoiding continued disappointment. Others will react angrily and want to see something done about it. Others will just despair.

For me football is more than entertainment. It’s in the blood so I will always care. I hate what I am seeing at the moment and I do feel we are heading for relegation sadly. I am in the despair camp. I can’t get angry. I have enough in life to worry about
 
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