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

Home or away, i am very nervy. Against lesser opposition it takes 2 goals . Against good teams at least 3. If at the stadium i lose my nerves by shouting . Often coming home hoarse
 
I still only get a tingle of nerves when we play Salford Utd. Always hated the derby days, but loved when we win them! I’m not too bothered with the rest (Liverpool an exception slightly these days), unless it’s a cup final. I think without Vardy & Kane in their teams, we would comfortably handle them too.
So yes, slightly nervous for Sunday, as it’s that ground Anfield. No fans, injuries and out of form... let’s be having the dippers... Now is the time to lay the marker down for the rest of the season. No talk please of if they win it’s still a 7 point gap! 10 point gap please...
 
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Remember when we beat Burnley 1-0 away two seasons ago to lift the title and literally just stood in the door way watching the whole match on egg shells drinking Holsten pills. I get Nervous energy so have to stand up constant.
 
I still only get a tingle of nerves when we play Salford Utd. Always hated the derby days, but loved when we win them! I’m not too bothered with the rest (Liverpool an exception slightly these days), unless it’s a cup final. I think without Vardy & Kane in their teams, we would comfortably handle them too.
So yes, slightly nervous for Sunday, as it’s that ground Anfield. No fans, injuries and out of form... let’s be having the dippers... Now is the time to lay the marker down for the rest of the season. No talk please of if they win it’s still a 7 point gap! 10 point gap please...
The scum do NOT reside in Salford !
 
Nothing beats the Kompany Derby . I didn’t have a season card at the time so had to watch at home . Last 10 mins I had to go in my garage . My daughter carried on watching and I kept looking through the window asking her is it over yet . The worst is when we are winning . The Newcastle Yaya game was nearly as bad !
 
Home or away, i am very nervy. Against lesser opposition it takes 2 goals . Against good teams at least 3. If at the stadium i lose my nerves by shouting . Often coming home hoarse
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.
 
Remember when we beat Burnley 1-0 away two seasons ago to lift the title and literally just stood in the door way watching the whole match on egg shells drinking Holsten pills. I get Nervous energy so have to stand up constant.
Found memories of that game cause I was in Cyprus watching it near the beach. Still nervous but my surroundings made it better
 
Bizarre thing is, this year has been less nervous then ever before. That back line no longer gives me the jitters I had in previous years and we still go forward really well.

Relaxed during most games this year for a change
 
think about things like climate change, world starvation , previous successes and imagining a bevy of super models in my bedroom asking me what the score is and we telling them I will attend to them after the game has finished.
 
Remember when we beat Burnley 1-0 away two seasons ago to lift the title and literally just stood in the door way watching the whole match on egg shells drinking Holsten pills. I get Nervous energy so have to stand up constant.
I start off sat down in my football chair then i perch on the edge of the couch before getting to my feet for the last 80 minutes
 
Remember when we beat Burnley 1-0 away two seasons ago to lift the title and literally just stood in the door way watching the whole match on egg shells drinking Holsten pills. I get Nervous energy so have to stand up constant.
When it's a really big tense game like that one or the Lyon one I can really hammer the beer at home, nervously supping every ten seconds. I remember when we won at Old TRafford in the Munich derby that time. I started the game lying on the sofa under a duvet with an upset stomach. When half time came I thought "fuck this, I need a beer" and flew up to the local shop and bought 4 pint cans of Stella. When the whistle went I'd had all four. Normally a pint takes me about 20 minutes.
 
If I’m on my own I turn the volume fully off and put the phone on ‘do not disturb’. My wife can be sat in the same room and you wouldn’t even know I was watching a game, complete silence. The last derby she didn’t even realise we’d won!

At the match I’m the absolute opposite and come home with a sore throat.
 

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