[Albion] My brother doesn't like football....

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I have two brothers. One has been a Leeds supporter for 50 years. The other has been a Chelsea supporter for 55 years.

<sigh>

 

[sully]

My son doesn’t like or have any interest in football.

I feel like a total failure.

 

[ozzygull]

My husband doesn’t like football and I knew that before we were married, what he didn’t realise was the level of my obsession

 

[lasvegan]

My mum was never a big football fan, but she sat me on her shoulders so I could see the FA Cup game vs Chelsea in ‘67. She used to be 5’-2”, now she’s about 4’-9”, lol.

We now watch football together every Saturday and Sunday (mid week if necessary) via Messenger, including all the Brighton games.

 

[Han Solo]

I'm from a Swedish university city. Population 120k. Best football team has been playing in the third tier for 38 years with only a two-season exception when the Swedish tier system was remade and the club played in the fourth tier.
I'm a pretty sociable person and would say I have 20 close friends and 50 friends I meet once in a quarter of a year.

Exactly ONE of them is a football nerd, and he's a f***ing United fan... (well, he's really a Mjällby fan but United is his team abroad).
Can't convert people, but its easy to win. If they belittle our lovely ball game, you can just ask them when Slavoj Zizek or Milton Friedman made 30 000 people sing together. People might stop themselves from liking football but if you give it a shot they can at least appreciate how important it is.

 

[Perkino]

I've married a lass who is not from a sporty family. My father in law isn't interested and none of my brother in laws know anything about football. It makes family gatherings a little tricky for conversation

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

It was my brother - 6 years older than me - who took me to my first zbrighton match in the 1960s.
He sits next to me in WSU.

 

[The Mole]

I think if I supported the team closest to my birth place, Hillingdon, I’d be a QPR or Brentford fan?

Fortunately I support the team nearest to where I was born (Portslade) otherwise if I supported the nearest team to where I live that would be Man U and a total disaster!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I'm from a Swedish university city. Population 120k. Best football team has been playing in the third tier for 38 years with only a two-season exception when the Swedish tier system was remade and the club played in the fourth tier.
I'm a pretty sociable person and would say I have 20 close friends and 50 friends I meet once in a quarter of a year.

Exactly ONE of them is a football nerd, and he's a f***ing United fan... (well, he's really a Mjällby fan but United is his team abroad).
Can't convert people, but its easy to win. If they belittle our lovely ball game, you can just ask them when Slavoj Zizek or Milton Friedman made 30 000 people sing together. People might stop themselves from liking football but if you give it a shot they can at least appreciate how important it is.

Welcome back Swanny

 

[sussex_guy2k2]

Mine has zero interest and I’ve no issue with that. We have other things in common and have actually become much closer as we’ve aged. People like what they like after all.

 

[phoenix]

Could be worse..my Step family are all Palace.
Hailing from Croydon / Surrey area.

One of my Step Brothers is a typical palace fan. Happy to casually sling homophobic jokes around about us and generally being a bit of a nause.

Other one is a true footy fan and can have a decent conversation about both teams with him without him resorting to tired gay jokes.

My Brother wasn't keen on football but one day he suddenly said "who have we got today, I said who are we. He said Brighton of course. Well you could knock me down with a feather. He sadly passed away a couple of years ago. But it still gives me a big grin the day he started supporting Brighton

Meanwhile the wanker downstairs is is a Palace fan and said to me "what do you think about Palace finishing above Brighton" I said they would have finished a lot higher if the hadn't given Brighton 4 points. He said i'm going in now. Strange was it something i said !

 

[phoenix]

My son doesn’t like or have any interest in football.

I feel like a total failure.

Sell him on e-bay.

 

[GJN1]

and while I love him, we are not close at all. To me, you are MAD if you don't love it. The Albion have been a True Love in my life. Even though at the mo, I can't afford to go much. I've mostly been watching streams at home with my old folks, last 2 seasons. Doing this has made us much closer (me and the folks). Such a shame my brother hates it. Weirdo.

Similar story here but mine likes musicals.

 

[Simster]

My brothers and I are all football mad, although the black sheep of the 4 of us is a Southampton fan. However, what saddens me is that neither of my two sons are interested at all. Well, that's not quite true - my eldest doesn't mind it when he comes and will happily come to Albion games with me, but doesn't really follow the game. My youngest son really couldn't give a toss about any proper sports at all.

 

[Justice]

My son doesn’t like or have any interest in football.

I feel like a total failure.

I would personally get a DNA test

 

[sully]

I would personally get a DNA test

Maybe, but he’s a lot like me in other ways and his other interests align, just not football for some reason.

 

[METALMICKY]

Sell him on e-bay.

My son who's 9 is struggling to get really interested. I've said he needs to buck his ideas up or if we win the lottery he'll be off to boarding school pronto. My wife is a little more sympathetic and says it bad parenting from me

 

[Stripey808]

My son who's 9 is struggling to get really interested. I've said he needs to buck his ideas up or if we win the lottery he'll be off to boarding school pronto. My wife is a little more sympathetic and says it bad parenting from me

Don’t worry, mine didn’t really get in to it until our promotion season, he was 14. Before that I took him to a few games but he said ent most of the time looking at his phone.

 

[METALMICKY]

Don’t worry, mine didn’t really get in to it until our promotion season, he was 14. Before that I took him to a few games but he said ent most of the time looking at his phone.

To compound matters he said he rather liked Taylor Swift the other day. My tastes are more heavy rock like Maiden and Metallica. As a parent it's a worrying time and I'm feeling a failure!

 

[Mackenzie]

My brother doesn’t like football either, he’s only been to one Albion match…against Hereford (he didn’t take the ticket of a true Albion fan, we were in with the home fans).

His 10 year old son is doing a stadium tour of the Amex today though, so all is not lost!