You’re far from the only one. Personally I think it’s more than football.

Sure, the game/sport is a big part of it, but I think there’s a bigger picture. Modern life, the state of the nation (whichever side of whatever political or social divide you’re on), even the state of the planet, it’s all very negative. Football, going to the game, even when we were s**t (s**tter than we are now, and we were much, much s**tter) used to be a way out. Now it’s just indicative of the whole thing, a reflection of the inequalities we all experience, a mirror to the world, a highlight of the way we can’t compete, a representation of the terminal decline we can all see when we look out of the window.

In the world of football, I think we’ll come to look at Leicester’s title not as a glorious example of underdogs winning against the odds, but as the time that the Big Dogs realised they’d have to close the door once and for all. Kind of like the way that it’s being realised that the London Olympic opening ceremony, in hindsight, wasn’t the celebration of multicultural togetherness it may have been intended to be, but a trigger for a dawning realisation that we weren’t “all in this together”.

After the game on Tuesday, we went back to the pub after the game. There were no more than a handful of people there and last orders were called at 10:30. Ten or fifteen years ago, even after a defeat, it would have been pretty full, even on a Tuesday, until gone 11. Sure, there are a number of factors and reasons for this, but that’s not my point and I’m not trying to find a source to blame; it’s the effect they’re having. Life just isn’t enjoyable and hasn’t been for some time.

Bleak, innit?

Posted By: APB, Oct 26, 17:10:45