How much does football affect your mental health…?

Far, far too much. Didn't go to Selhurst Park on Monday and watched it at home with family. My wife actually said City are going to be the death of me as I sat there red faced and shaking as it got closer and closer to full time without us scoring. I have got worse as I get older. It should be a thing of enjoyment. Don't get me wrong, I look forward all week to going to the match but it is definitely affecting my mental state.
 
Used really bother me if we lost or played badly.
These days I don't think about football much atall.
Go to the match and then go home.
Footballers don't give a toss about any of us
 
Definitely in my late teen years it used to piss me off and sometimes I couldn't be bothered to go out on a Saturday night - unfortunately that period coincided with the late 80s so that wiped out quite a few nights - thinking about it City probably saved me a fortune.

Nowadays I have mellowed out and just don't talk to anyone when we loose for a day or so.
 
It used to when i watched wall to wall footy before covid but not anymore , real life is more important , i get pissed off for a couple of hours but that is it
 
kaz7 said:
It used to when i watched wall to wall footy before covid but not anymore , real life is more important , i get pissed off for a couple of hours but that is it
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I was similar to you. Covid took away a lot of the sting but now I can see myself becoming more like I was pre-Covid.
 
Barely if im being honest. Bothers me in the moment, like everyone else, but by and large I can switch off almost immediately from it. Bigger games are a lot harder. Woke up disappointed for a few days post the Champions League final. Generally, I consider myself lucky to have a tonne of hobbies away from football to distract me from it all. City being bad? At full time I just put some music on, play a game, watch something or go for a walk with the wife. Forgotten in an instant.

Oh and ive realised its meant less and less mentally as I've gotten older. All the adult grown up stuff you have to do makes it pale in comparison when it comes to importance!
 
Danny Hoekman said:
Far, far too much. Didn't go to Selhurst Park on Monday and watched it at home with family. My wife actually said City are going to be the death of me as I sat there red faced and shaking as it got closer and closer to full time without us scoring. I have got worse as I get older. It should be a thing of enjoyment. Don't get me wrong, I look forward all week to going to the match but it is definitely affecting my mental state.
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Agree to a certain extent, not been as bad as you Danny, but definitely suffer from hiding behind the sofa syndrome, can't begin to count the number of times when watching games on tele where I have walked out of the room because it's becoming too tense for me.
I could conduct guided tours of the concourse at both ends of Wembley with the amount of tIme I have spent walking up and down there.
Yet after games have finished I accept the result and curse myself for being so irrational about doing it, promising myself next time it will be different, but already know that it will happen for the game against Southampton.
 
When we were shit nah I loved it winning was a bonus !

Did begin to get to me mentally around the time of the CAS hearing. But I think life in general was getting me down.

Now I can shake of a poor result within the hour quicker if I am at the match. But I dont read, watch or listen to the press/media. I ignore all football and just have bluemoon and City website.
I didnt even know the dippers were playing last night !
 
I was actually ill with nerves the day of the play off final with Gillingham. So much so that it became physical
 
Only if we've been robbed in a match or didn’t deserve to lose.

If I think we deserved to lose, it doesn’t bother me as much.

Fortunately, I don’t think every referee is trying to make us lose, so it doesn’t happen very often these days.

Think the last two examples would be Lyon and the 2-3 Derby to win the league.
 
chaddblue said:
I’m including texts / WhatsApp in that. Pretty hard to escape that
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yeah WhatsApp groups not much you can do, I’m the only Blue in group of 12 ( others reds )
Also the only one who stills goes on after a defeat and only one to have never left group sulking about having piss taken

reds are pussies
 
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