World Cup '26 qualifiers discussion

TemporaryFan

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Aye mate, seen that, it was a bad one for sure.

I know what you are saying about losing interest. With me it is less about losing interest in NT, but the way modern football is - so much money, some players being hyped and 'stars' off the park before they do or achieve anything. All the cheating is annoying too - it never used to bother me but does now.

Plus, when you hit your forties, seeing players young enough to be your son just hits differently to when they were old enough to be your dad. Knowing that if you had been a player you'd be retired by now.

I don't even think it is specific to football; it's just getting older and tastes changing. I do still enjoy watching football, but I enjoy playing more. I also never thought I would say this but I think I love films more than football now too.

There's a few things keeping me invested though - I enjoy watching Barca and young Lamine. It's funny seeing Man United struggle (my most hated club). And I always love the party feel of international tournaments so looking forward to the World Cup starting in exactly a year (though it's diluted and convoluted with 48 teams).

But in general, yeah - I don't love watching football as much as I used to. I think the kids love it as much as we did 20-30 years ago though - we are just getting older now, lol. You're early 50s and I am early 40s.
I guess you're right it has to do with age. Although my uncle, in his 70s, is still crazy about it though and couldn't understand why I choose to go on a bike ride instead of watching Portugal vs Spain. I've lost the appreciation for the sport itself. For esthetical value, I do prefer to watch track and field competitions, swimming, I think, l like tennis better too.
Yesterday's match was the last straw. I felt nauseated seeing those punks thanking the fans after the loss. Then Lewandowski "drama" is a laughing stock...I mean I need to distance myself from all this shit and take care of my own hobbies. Like maybe go back to shape and train for a triathlon or sign up year for tour de devide bike ride...
 

Maradona37

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I guess you're right it has to do with age. Although my uncle, in his 70s, is still crazy about it though and couldn't understand why I choose to go on a bike ride instead of watching Portugal vs Spain. I've lost the appreciation for the sport itself. For esthetical value, I do prefer to watch track and field competitions, swimming, I think, l like tennis better too.
Yesterday's match was the last straw. I felt nauseated seeing those punks thanking the fans after the loss. Then Lewandowski "drama" is a laughing stock...I mean I need to distance myself from all this shit and take care of my own hobbies. Like maybe go back to shape and train for a triathlon or sign up year for tour de devide bike ride...
Yeah some guys, the love never leaves them no matter how old they get - whether it is football or something other than football. It might dissipate for a whil,e but it always comes back.

I am starting to enjoy track and field and swimming a lot too. I wanna get more into volleyball as well. The athletics and swimming world championships are coming up soon.

That's why I told you a while ago you shouldn't get invested in Lewa (or any other player) just because they are the same nationality. Lewa always seemed quite selfish to me (I am good at reading people) and he doesn't really care about the Polish NT I don't think. He will always put his own legacy and numbers above the team, like Ronaldo does.

If you feel like you wanna get back to the gym (I have been doing cardio there recently) and train and get in shape, then you should. Try not to put your happiness in the hands of footballers who couldn't care less about us.

As @Messi983 was saying when we had the nationality debate a while ago, there's no real reflected glory in a person doing well in sport and us being the same nationality. Even at club level - it's great when your team wins, but ultimately these guys don't care about us and are so far removed from us in wealth etc. It has always been this way but at least back in the day players earned a lot less and bought pubs after retirement and drank with fans. What do fans possibly have in common with players now? Many players become rich as fuck and forget where they came from, their impoverished roots.

If you think about it, football fandom as a whole is a bit mad. Following multi-millionaires and hoping they do well at their jobs and win stuff that we don't have a part in on the pitch.
 

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