Serious question...

GSW Blue said:
On the train back now and thinking even a win in Germany won't make things much better. Don't mind getting beat but today was like surrender. Only thing to make it better is a big win next week. Sunderland getting a result might help.
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We win in Germany and we'll be top o' the league, even without Joleoninho, this time next Saturday!! (But don't put money on it!)

I am gradually coming to terms with losing in the modern era. Before 2011 I had no trouble with it at all, but since it's been like swallowing a brick every time we concede.
 
All football blanked out now till Wednesday,not much the result but the incompetence has pissed me off more.
 
StrangewaysHereWeCome said:
We've lost two and won five! There honestly isn't much more we could do.West Ham have been pretty good and Spurs are well overdue a win over us!
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I mean in general over the past 5 years. It's been good but I honestly think this team should have achieved a lot more both at home and abroad.
 
StrangewaysHereWeCome said:
We've lost two and won five! There honestly isn't much more we could do.West Ham have been pretty good and Spurs are well overdue a win over us!
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2011/12 when we won the title our first league loss came in December to put in perspective. Yes we lost 4 times by November 2013/14, but we can't bank on to get 20 game unbeaten run every season. 6 times is about the maximum you can afford to lose in order to win title, when these losses come early it puts pressure on the rest of league season.
 
Before the match, my youngest daughter, 29, phoned me to say she had spent most of the night in hospital, after standing on a knife in the dark at her friends house. The doctor at Fellaini (A & E) said she might have severed a nerve, as she can't feel 2 of her toes. She has to go back on Monday to see what they can do. She is supposed to be going to Australia on October 6th for a "Gap Year", something she has looked forward to for months. This may now not happen.

When the match was at 1 - 0 to City, my other daughter (33) phoned to say that her 9 year old dog had died that morning, and she was devastated, as am I.

City eventually lost 4 - 1.

Shit day all round.
 
tommy116 said:
I wish it did not effect me but it really does, i cant face looking at football and i would rather pull my eyes out than watch match of the day especially after other results today. Whats worse is that the papers and pro rag lot will be falling over themselves to have a go, i wish the city players cared as much as i do as from today i dont think they do.
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They couldn't give a rats mate. Professional pride should be enough but clearly it isn't with many.
 
VOOMER said:
As I'm someone who suffers from mental illness and is on daily medication, it means the world to me that we win. Pathetic I know, but just beating the mackums made me feel happy. Sorry but it really does have an effect on me. It shouldn't, but it does.
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Same here
 
VOOMER said:
As I'm someone who suffers from mental illness and is on daily medication, it means the world to me that we win. Pathetic I know, but just beating the mackums made me feel happy. Sorry but it really does have an effect on me. It shouldn't, but it does.
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So you are using a football team as a form of medication? That's a very risky strategy to take if you don't mind me saying

Of course I want to see us win every game, and I am disappointed that we lost today, but a little perspective is needed here
 
The first 40 odd years supporting city was far easier accepting defeat , we were not very good to be truthful for most of that time , but losing with our current squad is very hard to take , we are now a high profile club , with everyone having a pop at us when we lose , watching city get beat always did hurt , but we now have to contend with the bitterness and jealousy from other clubs and the media , which we never had to deal with before.
 
I stay in , I have numerous slash wounds on my arms. I've also had to book several weeks holiday/ sickness off work to get over losing a game of football. Do I win ?
 
jimmygrimblesboots said:
The first 40 odd years supporting city was far easier accepting defeat , we were not very good to be truthful for most of that time , but losing with our current squad is very hard to take , we are now a high profile club , with everyone having a pop at us when we lose , watching city get beat always did hurt , but we now have to contend with the bitterness and jealousy from other clubs and the media , which we never had to deal with before.
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+100
 
Hinchcliffes chin said:
How much does City getting beat effect your weekend and general state of mind??
Got to say it fecking floors me and mine! I can't turn this weekend around now,its all about getting to the next game,prem game anyway,im just not feeling the ucl.
Just get me to next weekend,let's get back on track and bury todays shambles,I mean how do you lot turn your weekends back around? I've got four children I should be entertaining that should take my mind off City as well as other things to be getting on with but it never works!??
On occasion we get beat at home these days it proper spoils the beer down town later on,and on rare occasion I've been known just to f##k off back home straight after! Just wanted to know how some of you lot handle it,I've done all that 'argh FCK it let's get smashed' when I was younger, just seems harder to shake off the disappointment these days.
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I used to let it ruin my day and weekend.I realised after our last 2 title wins that it's where we finish the season that counts not individual results. I try and stay much more relaxed about these things days.
 
It devastates me, frankly. Totally ruins my week. Until about Thursday, when I start worrying about the next game.

I genuinely think having a mental illness (depression/anxiety) exacerbates the whole thing. It's an obsession that expands the more I brood upon the events of the afternoon of a loss.

Me and my girlfriend are looking at getting some help for it, to be honest. I want to enjoy football, not obsess over it.

Intellectually I know it's of no consequence whether 11 millionaires win at a game over 90 minutes on a Saturday, and that upsets me even more; I know, and am fully aware that football is just football and just a game and, crucially, a form of entertainment! But I'm so emotionally invested, so indoctrinated that it makes me feel very vivid, very extreme emotions. Elation, exhilaration all the way to despair. I almost grieve results. Which is ridiculous. I'm aware of the ridiculousness of this, which exacerbates the whole thing further and hence the looking into getting some help.

My theory on it is quite closely linked to the notion of the absurd (as in Camus' definition of the absurd). Through my own awareness of the complete randomness of the universe, I cling to the very linear and binary and sensical stimulus that football provides. It's almost like a bi-polar manifestation, I suppose. (I do not have bi-polar disorder, by the way).

I have a complex relationship with football altogether, especially in terms of how it makes me feel and my own lack of perspective on the whole thing.

I am over analytical in the extreme, anyway. And football almost panders to that innate overwroughtness. And I hate it in a way. But like a beaten dog I keep coming back.

I've often wondered if others are the same as me, or if this correlates with anyone else feelings?

Sorry for the rant. And sorry if that was unclear. it was more a flurry of thought than a well thought out thesis. I may study this deeper though.

Can anybody else relate? Anyone have any advice for this?
 
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