How do you cope with nerves during a big game at home

[stonerblue]

Annoyingly I’ve become tee-total during our games since this run started and am now superstitious as fuck about it.

I thought it would be safe to change this for the Cheltenham game and cracked open a bottle of cider. We were 1 down when I realised it might be my fault. I finished it pronto and hid it out of sight and the comeback duly followed.

As this run has gone on my nerves have got better, mainly due to our performance levels going up and up but also due to the teams in red shitting their pants with increasing regularity.

I’ll have nerves Sunday though and no beers.

I'll drink for both of us on Sunday. Hope to be rockin' by 2 ish.

 

[Akpowell]

I'm alright when we're attacking but if the dippers start to attack us, i screw my eyes up so I cant see the telly properly and turn the sound off.
Then open my eyes again when were on the ball.
I know I'm a fucking wuss, but hey ho.
By the way I'm starting to brick it already

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Do you start and finish 30 seconds before kick off? ;-)

If it’s a double header yes

 

[Scottish Cityzen]

I'll drink for both of us on Sunday. Hope to be rockin' by 2 ish.

Cheers mate, I’ll hopefully be downing a few by 6.30 Sunday.

 

[bluealf]

3 cans a half before I stopped drinking, the problem was the other 15 or so spread out before and after the game lol

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Stop fishing, Dave. Tut!

If I worked for the club I’d revoke your season ticket and give it to a new fan ;-)

 

[Lavinda Past]

I've never 'suffered' from pre-match nerves in all the years I've followed City - It's out of my control so I don't worry about it.

I approach every match exactly the same way... I expect City to win, and at the end of the game I'm either pleased or disappointed.

The only thing I'll be 'worried' about on Sunday is waking up in time for the match.

City to win 2-0, no sweat.

 

[BillCarlisle]

Strangely, although I usually have a good load of beer on board when I'm at a match, the opposite applies when watching City at home on telly. It's a superstition. At most I may have a beer at HT if we're coasting, but nothing else until FT. Also, I never move from one settee to the other. That would be sure-fire bad luck & all my fault if we lost!

 

[GazM]

I drink tea. Avoid the booze...it saves the arguments and hangovers

 

[BlueMonkey79]

Annoyingly I’ve become tee-total during our games since this run started and am now superstitious as fuck about it.

I thought it would be safe to change this for the Cheltenham game and cracked open a bottle of cider. We were 1 down when I realised it might be my fault. I finished it pronto and hid it out of sight and the comeback duly followed.

As this run has gone on my nerves have got better, mainly due to our performance levels going up and up but also due to the teams in red shitting their pants with increasing regularity.

I’ll have nerves Sunday though and no beers.

Save all the beers mate for AFTER the game on Sunday and celebrate the end of Liverfools title challenge!!

 

[Prater70]

I can't cope.

 

[paulchapo]

Now it's watching it on TV I find I switch channels,turn the sound down, put the match thread on and walk around. I go back and check the match thread. If it's jumped significantly I know something's happened. I fearfully open the latest thread and if we've scored quickly switch back to the game. I can't relax until we are 3-0 up even with our improved defence. Too scarred from the old days I guess lol.

 

[Blue Theatre]

Lots of little rituals for me - on matchday I always put on blue underwear, wear a "21 Silva" top under a normal shirt, sit in my "lucky beanbag", etc.

Then I have lots of in-game rituals that I won't bore you with.

All superstitious claptrap of course, but I'm scared if I change anything then City will collapse and get hammered, UEFA will ban us, Sheikh Mansour will leave, and we'll be relegated. It's just not worth the risk.

 

[Franny's toilet roll]

We FOCs in CBL3 323 tend to hold our breath from kick-off, and don't exhale until we are four ahead and it's at least the 87th minute. Still plenty of time for the opposition to knock in five but it hasn't happened yet! Four, yes, three many times, two on loads of occasions, and one innumerable time, but never five.

A great description of what it's like to be a blue

 

[Stoned Rose]

Nerves are for fannies.

The only games I get (slightly) nervous for nowadays are the derbies and that's only because I fucking detest those cunts.

 

[billfromthehill]

Do you drink more? Pace up and down? If I’m watching at home I must change where I’m sat about 10 times I can sit still

No

wouldn’t like to be in the trenches with you

Do you drink more? Pace up and down? If I’m watching at home I must change where I’m sat about 10 times I can sit still

 

[James Morgan]

Depends on the big game.
if it were Bayern Munich in the UCL final, I’d probably shit the bed and do everything but watch the tele.

Usually though, I like to let off steam before. Go for a run, do some boxing or hit the gym. I don’t bother watching all the pre match bollocks, with a bunch of rags and dippers wanking each other off. I try and time it so I perch my ass down, crack open a cold one just in time for kick off.

 

[billfromthehill]

Do you drink more? Pace up and down? If I’m watching at home I must change where I’m sat about 10 times I can sit still

Yes I do

 

[Blue Til Death]

The truth is, I don’t cope with them, I endure them and not just for big games, my missus was close to ringing an ambulance on 79 mins against Cheltenham I was that fucked up , apparently my head looked like a giant blueberry, my BP was that high...... !

Thanks City x

 

[Blue Maverick]

Only nervous at kick off I don’t don’t register the game until then, always wear my City top now and unless we get 2 up I can’t relax. Even the control we have these days dodgy VAR etc won’t let me relax, wife complains im shouting too much, her and daughter a relegated upstairs.