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Recently people have been saying that Life topics have been overflowed with football topics, but I think this is mainly due to the fact that football *is* life to alot of people.
OK, so maybe football isn’t the only part of life, but it’s a whole way of life.
Reasons I enjoy Football:
1. I like playing it
2. I like watching it
3. I like talking about it
4. Did I say I like it?
I like playing it....
I play football regularly, both competitively and just for fun. Whether it’s from a Cup Final to kicking a ball around with my mates I enjoy it. The main thing is the fact that at the same time as playing football you’re socialising, making friends and having a laugh. The worst thing for me about playing football is the fact that I have to get up at 9 or 10 in the morning to get to the match. Me being a 12/1pm waker it’s quite a struggle getting up at these times!
When I’m on the field I get an adrenaline rush, which is an unexplainable feeling, but you’ll know what I’m talking about if you play competitively. The past few seasons I’ve played central midfield but this season I've been put into the Left-back position.... Left-back is bad enough when you’re left-footed... I’m right footed!
Anyway, I don’t really get the same opportunity to score now, which I have to say was the biggest buzz for me out of the game, but now instead I’ve found a new joy within the game, a sliding tackle! These babies can do some damage if you time them just right and a successful one is as good as scoring a goal.
Basically I love playing football, not for the winning, but for the fun of playing with mates. But winning doesn’t half help!
I like watching it....
“Tottenham, Tottenham are the greatest team the World has ever seen!”
“Come on you whites!”
As you may or may not have realised I’m an avid Tottenham fan. Maybe they’re not the best team in the world, but I've always supported them and love watching them. Now its not just Tottenham that I like to observe it can be any team playing and Ill sit there watching eagerly.
Viewing football also means I can learn from the players I see. Whether its Harry Kewell attempting a wondrous trick or David Beckham with one of his infamous free-kicks, ill be attempting them at training and with my mates, trying to impress.
As we all know thhe World Cup is approaching and Im definitely going to be watching England play, whether it means getting up at 5am, or missing a day of college (oh no!) The buzz that we all get during a big tournament like this is great, and what’s nice is it seems to bring us all together.
I like talking about it....
There’s so much happening in football these days that there’s so much to talk about. Transfer speculation, Great Goals, Hooliganism and more runs the lips of many football fans around the world. With the media becoming more and more involved with the game, we the public hear about things inside football that we would never before now of known.
I probably spend a lot of time discussing football whether it’s with my mates at college or on these very forums. We all enjoy talking about our “favourite” team and how many points they’re going to win the league by (Tottenham are going to win the league by 7 points by the way). We also all have different views about football and its great to share opinions and discuss various issues that we may not have thought of up till now.
Football almost seems to have its own language that all of us football fans can speak. This is a great thing because even with people you’ve never met before you can talk about football and they will know what you’re talking about, well hopefully anyway!
Did I say I like it?....
You’ve probably realised by now that I’m a bit of a football fanatic, I love to talk, play, eat, and sleep football!
In my opinion it’s the greatest sport ever imagined, well except tiddlywinks of course....
OK, so maybe football isn’t the only part of life, but it’s a whole way of life.
Reasons I enjoy Football:
1. I like playing it
2. I like watching it
3. I like talking about it
4. Did I say I like it?
I like playing it....
I play football regularly, both competitively and just for fun. Whether it’s from a Cup Final to kicking a ball around with my mates I enjoy it. The main thing is the fact that at the same time as playing football you’re socialising, making friends and having a laugh. The worst thing for me about playing football is the fact that I have to get up at 9 or 10 in the morning to get to the match. Me being a 12/1pm waker it’s quite a struggle getting up at these times!
When I’m on the field I get an adrenaline rush, which is an unexplainable feeling, but you’ll know what I’m talking about if you play competitively. The past few seasons I’ve played central midfield but this season I've been put into the Left-back position.... Left-back is bad enough when you’re left-footed... I’m right footed!
Anyway, I don’t really get the same opportunity to score now, which I have to say was the biggest buzz for me out of the game, but now instead I’ve found a new joy within the game, a sliding tackle! These babies can do some damage if you time them just right and a successful one is as good as scoring a goal.
Basically I love playing football, not for the winning, but for the fun of playing with mates. But winning doesn’t half help!
I like watching it....
“Tottenham, Tottenham are the greatest team the World has ever seen!”
“Come on you whites!”
As you may or may not have realised I’m an avid Tottenham fan. Maybe they’re not the best team in the world, but I've always supported them and love watching them. Now its not just Tottenham that I like to observe it can be any team playing and Ill sit there watching eagerly.
Viewing football also means I can learn from the players I see. Whether its Harry Kewell attempting a wondrous trick or David Beckham with one of his infamous free-kicks, ill be attempting them at training and with my mates, trying to impress.
As we all know thhe World Cup is approaching and Im definitely going to be watching England play, whether it means getting up at 5am, or missing a day of college (oh no!) The buzz that we all get during a big tournament like this is great, and what’s nice is it seems to bring us all together.
I like talking about it....
There’s so much happening in football these days that there’s so much to talk about. Transfer speculation, Great Goals, Hooliganism and more runs the lips of many football fans around the world. With the media becoming more and more involved with the game, we the public hear about things inside football that we would never before now of known.
I probably spend a lot of time discussing football whether it’s with my mates at college or on these very forums. We all enjoy talking about our “favourite” team and how many points they’re going to win the league by (Tottenham are going to win the league by 7 points by the way). We also all have different views about football and its great to share opinions and discuss various issues that we may not have thought of up till now.
Football almost seems to have its own language that all of us football fans can speak. This is a great thing because even with people you’ve never met before you can talk about football and they will know what you’re talking about, well hopefully anyway!
Did I say I like it?....
You’ve probably realised by now that I’m a bit of a football fanatic, I love to talk, play, eat, and sleep football!
In my opinion it’s the greatest sport ever imagined, well except tiddlywinks of course....
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A few years ago my life was getting like fever pitch (without the girlfriend, the regular games, the arsenal boxer shorts......)
recently I have been seeing 3rd division southend united when I'm in the country, I unfortunately missed their 3rd round fa cup tie against tranmere because they resceduled it for a few days after my flight back to uni.
We have found that we can watch premiership games at a sports bar at 10am on saturdays (even though a heavy night of party makes getting up difficult)
My friend also downloads game highlights from the net (he gets the spurs ones for free and the sunderland ones, but subscribes for the arsenal ones).
in summary what would I do without football?
recently I have been seeing 3rd division southend united when I'm in the country, I unfortunately missed their 3rd round fa cup tie against tranmere because they resceduled it for a few days after my flight back to uni.
We have found that we can watch premiership games at a sports bar at 10am on saturdays (even though a heavy night of party makes getting up difficult)
My friend also downloads game highlights from the net (he gets the spurs ones for free and the sunderland ones, but subscribes for the arsenal ones).
in summary what would I do without football?
well in my life football plays a very important role and so it is a huge part in my life. unfortunately i am not able to play very often :( but luckily there are still the professional football leagues i am so much into. in the summer i nearly cannot bear it when there is such a long time WITHOUT any football and so i am very delighted when there are competitions such as the world cup this year! besides it is interesting to watch the leagues of foreign contries for example real madrid's development or the italian championship - the great struggle between chievo, juce, lazio, as, ac and inter for example. and well, i am really really fond of the german bundesliga, cause germany is the contry i'm born in. my fav team might perform very badly this season, but this is no reasonl to turn away at all . for 10 years i have been their fan and i will be their fan for eternity ;) furthermore the atmosphere in the stadium is so amazing: it starts when entering the stadium and watching the pitch below, listening to the boxes and celebrating the team when it lines up and then... the goal- what a feeling ;) i think everybody who has ever been to stadium knows what i am talking about and writing these sentences i get aware of that the winter pause in germany has to come to an end soon... still 8 days to go!!!! come on 1.FC Köln and come on liverpool :)
I play everyday at my local stro-turf pitches, they put the lights on for us n'all. And dav1d?, I don't think it's "football is life", more like "life is football" for me
I used to play football all the time! As soon as I got home from school, all weekend, any time it wasn't raining or snowing! But since I moved house i've only really been able to play it at school. Everyone near me now's at least 5 years younger so I don't bother. I hate moving house, it was perfect before!
cjh wrote:
> Like Dav1d:
1. I like playing it
2. I like watching it
3. I like talking
> about it
but I don't really 'Follow' it. I did support Spurs, and still kinda
> do, but I don't really follow the team anymore, I just watch a match if I think
> it will be good, or if it's on at the time, but I wouldn't say it was 'Life'.
As a Spurs supporter, I am shocked to see a former Spurs fan say they do not really follow football. What are you, a poof or something? (HARRY ENFIELD) Joke
Football is an amzing sport, or at least it was a sport until Tony Blair came out of no-where and told every one to sit down at football games to reduce chance of injuries. How worth is that. Takes all of the fun away when a team scores and you want to celebrate!
FANS
> Like Dav1d:
1. I like playing it
2. I like watching it
3. I like talking
> about it
but I don't really 'Follow' it. I did support Spurs, and still kinda
> do, but I don't really follow the team anymore, I just watch a match if I think
> it will be good, or if it's on at the time, but I wouldn't say it was 'Life'.
As a Spurs supporter, I am shocked to see a former Spurs fan say they do not really follow football. What are you, a poof or something? (HARRY ENFIELD) Joke
Football is an amzing sport, or at least it was a sport until Tony Blair came out of no-where and told every one to sit down at football games to reduce chance of injuries. How worth is that. Takes all of the fun away when a team scores and you want to celebrate!
FANS
Like Dav1d:
1. I like playing it
2. I like watching it
3. I like talking about it
but I don't really 'Follow' it. I did support Spurs, and still kinda do, but I don't really follow the team anymore, I just watch a match if I think it will be good, or if it's on at the time, but I wouldn't say it was 'Life'.
1. I like playing it
2. I like watching it
3. I like talking about it
but I don't really 'Follow' it. I did support Spurs, and still kinda do, but I don't really follow the team anymore, I just watch a match if I think it will be good, or if it's on at the time, but I wouldn't say it was 'Life'.
Since I can't start a new topic for some reason, I thought I'd post this here
It's an essay I handed in when we were doing religion in Sociology
IS FOOTBALL A RELIGION?
I personally don’t follow football that much. If you were to ask me to name even half of the Newcastle Utd football team, I’d have to run off and ask someone. Obviously I like to see them win matches, because I was brought up here, but if they lose I don’t get depressed. I watch the main England matches, so when people ask me the next day I can go on about how Michael Owen did this and did that. But that’s as far as it goes. I don’t keep up with the transfers and premiership placings, or how many goals the new foreign striker has scored. Other people, however, do.
My dad was too busy taking me to church to be able to take me to football games, and he never taught me how to play. I guess that’s why I don’t see the attraction, because I wasn’t brought up with it. But I was brought up with religion, and that stuck with me for a long time. That is how so many people come to love, and in some cases, worship football. They watch football as infants with their older brothers or their dads, they’re taught to play and they play it every break time at school and after school on the field.
Then as people grow older, unless they’re looking to make a career out of it, they gradually stop playing and are instead reduced to only being able to watch the match down the local with their friends. Some people spend every waking moment thinking about football, and as attendance figures for church go down, football match attendance goes up. In my opinion football has been replacing religion for the past 30 years. But, is it a religion in it’s own right? Glock and Stark define religion in several ways.
“A religious person will accept the major beliefs of his or her religion, e.g. the teachings of a holy book such as the bible or Koran.”
“A religious person will carry out certain practices to show their commitment, e.g. formal worship, prayer, fasting.”
“A religious person will have some experience of, or communication with, a god, e.g. through visiting a sacred place.”
“A religious person will have knowledge and understanding of the teachings of their religion, e.g. details from a holy book.”
“A religious person will be expected to adapt behaviour appropriate to their religion, e.g. to love their neighbour or care for the poor.”
The first definition, about beliefs from a book, could be true of football, as vivid football fans buy all their team’s merchandise, including annual books, full of information on the team and it’s players, and it’s history. Whether or not there is anything in the book that could be seen as a teaching is another matter, so I am not sure if this could be seen as religious. However, supporters are brought up to despise other teams, and they will follow this teaching almost their entire lives.
The second definition is almost certainly true of football, as there are several traditions to follow when going to a match. Wearing the team’s strip or colours is the main one, and going to the pub afterwards, win or lose, is just as valid. A lot of people will actually pray that their team will do well.
The third definition talks of having an experience with a god at a sacred place. Footballers sign autographs after matches at the stadiums, and several of them as referred to as gods, and the football stadium itself is the most sacred place possible to many football fans.
Every dedicated fan knows when their team was founded, and how many times they’ve won the premiership and all manner of other useless facts, and they learn these facts mostly from books. Just as religious people read the bible and know a great deal of things about their religion.
The last major feature of religion by Glock and Stark is about people adapting certain behaviours, given to them by their religion. As I said before, supporters will wear their team’s strip, chant things during matches, argue with rival supporters, and drink at the pub while talking about the game.
So football could be seen as a religion, but until it gets an official government status as one, which is highly unlikely, football will simply remain something for people to talk about, and play on Saturdays.
Andrew Rumney 13JF
I think I got a C or B for it, I didn't exactly try hard
It's an essay I handed in when we were doing religion in Sociology
IS FOOTBALL A RELIGION?
I personally don’t follow football that much. If you were to ask me to name even half of the Newcastle Utd football team, I’d have to run off and ask someone. Obviously I like to see them win matches, because I was brought up here, but if they lose I don’t get depressed. I watch the main England matches, so when people ask me the next day I can go on about how Michael Owen did this and did that. But that’s as far as it goes. I don’t keep up with the transfers and premiership placings, or how many goals the new foreign striker has scored. Other people, however, do.
My dad was too busy taking me to church to be able to take me to football games, and he never taught me how to play. I guess that’s why I don’t see the attraction, because I wasn’t brought up with it. But I was brought up with religion, and that stuck with me for a long time. That is how so many people come to love, and in some cases, worship football. They watch football as infants with their older brothers or their dads, they’re taught to play and they play it every break time at school and after school on the field.
Then as people grow older, unless they’re looking to make a career out of it, they gradually stop playing and are instead reduced to only being able to watch the match down the local with their friends. Some people spend every waking moment thinking about football, and as attendance figures for church go down, football match attendance goes up. In my opinion football has been replacing religion for the past 30 years. But, is it a religion in it’s own right? Glock and Stark define religion in several ways.
“A religious person will accept the major beliefs of his or her religion, e.g. the teachings of a holy book such as the bible or Koran.”
“A religious person will carry out certain practices to show their commitment, e.g. formal worship, prayer, fasting.”
“A religious person will have some experience of, or communication with, a god, e.g. through visiting a sacred place.”
“A religious person will have knowledge and understanding of the teachings of their religion, e.g. details from a holy book.”
“A religious person will be expected to adapt behaviour appropriate to their religion, e.g. to love their neighbour or care for the poor.”
The first definition, about beliefs from a book, could be true of football, as vivid football fans buy all their team’s merchandise, including annual books, full of information on the team and it’s players, and it’s history. Whether or not there is anything in the book that could be seen as a teaching is another matter, so I am not sure if this could be seen as religious. However, supporters are brought up to despise other teams, and they will follow this teaching almost their entire lives.
The second definition is almost certainly true of football, as there are several traditions to follow when going to a match. Wearing the team’s strip or colours is the main one, and going to the pub afterwards, win or lose, is just as valid. A lot of people will actually pray that their team will do well.
The third definition talks of having an experience with a god at a sacred place. Footballers sign autographs after matches at the stadiums, and several of them as referred to as gods, and the football stadium itself is the most sacred place possible to many football fans.
Every dedicated fan knows when their team was founded, and how many times they’ve won the premiership and all manner of other useless facts, and they learn these facts mostly from books. Just as religious people read the bible and know a great deal of things about their religion.
The last major feature of religion by Glock and Stark is about people adapting certain behaviours, given to them by their religion. As I said before, supporters will wear their team’s strip, chant things during matches, argue with rival supporters, and drink at the pub while talking about the game.
So football could be seen as a religion, but until it gets an official government status as one, which is highly unlikely, football will simply remain something for people to talk about, and play on Saturdays.
Andrew Rumney 13JF
I think I got a C or B for it, I didn't exactly try hard
Football? I'm more of a fan of figure skating, now that can change your life, you wouldn't have seen me walking around in tights before I took up figure skating.
Riise. Is that your name Dave? :o)
Yer, setting up goals is amazing. And, I don't get praised. Most the time anyway. I haven't scored yet, but I have only played 5 games. 2 were against a Man Utd team, they are amazing. And, another close match, 3-1. Hmm, ah well, I have set up 2 goals :o)
Yer, setting up goals is amazing. And, I don't get praised. Most the time anyway. I haven't scored yet, but I have only played 5 games. 2 were against a Man Utd team, they are amazing. And, another close match, 3-1. Hmm, ah well, I have set up 2 goals :o)
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