Welling up while watching Boro highlights

viv_andersons_nana

viv_andersons_nana

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I was flicking around on YouTube this morning - killing and/or wasting time whilst STILL on furlough - and the Boro v Brighton highlights from 2016 automatically started playing after I'd finished watching a short piece with Jamie Carragher(he was talking about Fabio Capello).

The video was filmed by someone in the North Stand and seems to be the entirety of injury time and the start of the pitch invasion at the end. You hear his cries of "come on" and "no, no, no... f*cking no Boro" whenever Brighton get anywhere near our final third. "Mike Dean THAT IS IT, THAT IS IT, BLOW.... BLOW..." is another. Anyway for some reason I found myself welling up while watching this. It is unusual really but I do normally get tingles watching the Steaua goals, which I do maybe a couple of times a year.

Do these involuntary and very sudden bursts of emotion, welling up, tingling, happen to anyone else or have I just been stuck in the house way too long?
 
Nah happens to me too! The Carling Cup final is one which always gets me.

It doesn't even have to be watching highlights, just remembering some games gets the emotions going the thread on here about Roma the other week was a prime example.
 
No you aren't alone in this!
It's reliving the emotion that you experience at a live game, the ups and downs and when it all comes right, the sheer elation.
Seeing some of these moments back again is great and non sports fans are missing out.
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
I was flicking around on YouTube this morning - killing and/or wasting time whilst STILL on furlough - and the Boro v Brighton highlights from 2016 automatically started playing after I'd finished watching a short piece with Jamie Carragher(he was talking about Fabio Capello).

The video was filmed by someone in the North Stand and seems to be the entirety of injury time and the start of the pitch invasion at the end. You hear his cries of "come on" and "no, no, no... f*cking no Boro" whenever Brighton get anywhere near our final third. "Mike Dean THAT IS IT, THAT IS IT, BLOW.... BLOW..." is another. Anyway for some reason I found myself welling up while watching this. It is unusual really but I do normally get tingles watching the Steaua goals, which I do maybe a couple of times a year.

Do these involuntary and very sudden bursts of emotion, welling up, tingling, happen to anyone else or have I just been stuck in the house way too long?
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You have a link for that? The UEFA cup semi with Ali's commentary is the one that always does it for me.
 
Jonny Ingbar said:
You have a link for that? The UEFA cup semi with Ali's commentary is the one that always does it for me.
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Boro v Brighton - Stoppage Time

It was actually only around a minute or so into the video that I first welled up. I had no sign it was coming, it just happened. And then at various points over the next couple of minutes as well. It is strange, or may seem strange, but you can hear the supporters desperate for the whistle and for the team to hold on and the things they say, shout, took me right back to thinking about the times I've been in crowds like that. The things you say, hear, do as times edges on and Boro inch closer to a win or whatever it is they needed. It sounds like a cliche but it is probably the human aspect more than anything with this one, being in crowds and just generally not being able to go to games or even out of the house for a pint or into town or whatever. Everything boiled down into the one short video of Boro trying to hold on.
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
Boro v Brighton - Stoppage Time

It was actually only around a minute or so into the video that I first welled up. I had no sign it was coming, it just happened. And then at various points over the next couple of minutes as well. It is strange, or may seem strange, but you can hear the supporters desperate for the whistle and for the team to hold on and the things they say, shout, took me right back to thinking about the times I've been in crowds like that. The things you say, hear, do as times edges on and Boro inch closer to a win or whatever it is they needed. It sounds like a cliche but it is probably the human aspect more than anything with this one, being in crowds and just generally not being able to go to games or even out of the house for a pint or into town or whatever. Everything boiled down into the one short video of Boro trying to hold on.
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Just done the same in welling up to that video haha, reminded me of exactly how I was like in the West Stand that day. God I can't wait to go to a game.
 
I remember watching the clip a few years back, and like others, it captures exactly how I felt.
The longest 8 minutes (?) Of my Life.
One daft mistake and the whole season potentially ruined.
At the final whistle I was hugged by a complete stranger.
Unforgettable day.
 
you certainly can feel the tension through that video, imagine how the players must have been feeling.

I'd fallen out of love with football a fair bit before the lock down, but this last year has made me realise how much I actually love it. Just can't wait to get back to a match, hopefully be back up north more regularly next season so fingers crossed crowds are back and we get some good footy under warnock to cheer about.
 
Charli xcx video for forever. Released when lockdown was starting to bite. Had me in bits. Took about half an hour to compose myself. It's brilliantly edited and the footage of walking out of the door onto the beach and all the crowds at the end really get to you when you don't know when you'll be able to do that again.

 
viv_andersons_nana said:
Boro v Brighton - Stoppage Time

It was actually only around a minute or so into the video that I first welled up. I had no sign it was coming, it just happened. And then at various points over the next couple of minutes as well. It is strange, or may seem strange, but you can hear the supporters desperate for the whistle and for the team to hold on and the things they say, shout, took me right back to thinking about the times I've been in crowds like that. The things you say, hear, do as times edges on and Boro inch closer to a win or whatever it is they needed. It sounds like a cliche but it is probably the human aspect more than anything with this one, being in crowds and just generally not being able to go to games or even out of the house for a pint or into town or whatever. Everything boiled down into the one short video of Boro trying to hold on.
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Brilliant that; it encapsulates everything that watching football is all about. You can feel the tension, hear it in the voices (not least from the geezer you can hear throughout - hope it wasn't you!).
 
Once I'd read your opening post Viv I was about to say that Ali's commentary does it for me, but I was beaten to it.
I think sounds are far more capable of evoking memories than most things and Ali really was a masterful exponent of conveying his passion for the club we all love.
 
They are both pretty recent memories but Forshaw and Nugent goals (Reading/Hull).

I've watched Rhodes brace at Bolton a few times. The season was slipping away then a quick fire double👏. We all know Garston changed that season but Rhodes was as much pivotal.

I guess the biggest was Stuani against Brighton. Still brings shivers down my back. Although not as much as Dimi catching it in the 93rd min.
 
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