Why are football fans so fickle?

[Gritt23]

I follow all sorts of sports, and it seems that football FAR more than any other sport is calling for heads to roll far quicker than any other sport.

Go to the cricket and a few losses do not result in the whole structure of Sussex CCC being turned upside down, and even with the current England tour, it's generally the football fans who become part-time cricket watchers that seem to want everyone out the moment we are second-best (YES - I have been critical of the ECB and specifically some of their employees, but I'm not demanding sackings). The football orientated media are pretty quick on the "sack 'em" approach to whatever sport is covering their back pages, but the intelligent articles in the non red-top papers are always far more reasoned and intelligent.

I sincerely believe attracts fickle fans, rather than makes fans fickle, but I can't for the life of me understand why.

 

[Freddo]

maybe the thread title should be renamed: "why are brighton fans so fickle?"

 

[graz126]

football has many more supporters than many other sports. a small percentage can be overheard a lot more. this sometimes being the fickle element that is attracted to football.

 

[cannedheat]

If you are pissed off about some fans slagging off Henderson say so, there is no need for a silly poll, we are football fans its the way things are and always will be.

 

[clippedgull]

maybe the thread title should be renamed: "why are brighton fans so fickle?"

Happens at every club.

Not Just Brighton.

 

[Gritt23]

If you are pissed off about some fans slagging off Henderson say so, there is no need for a silly poll, we are football fans its the way things are and always will be.

Slagging off Hendo is one of many things ... it's not what made me start the poll. And it's a serious question, I#m always impressed when I go to cricket how it matters to people, but they enjoy the day, the sport the occasion, and don't finish the afternoon slagging off everyone. Then football seems so very different, and I don't understand why.

Blimey, if you think this is a silly poll, you haven't spent much time on here have you.

 

[cannedheat]

Slagging off Hendo is one of many things ... it's not what made me start the poll. And it's a serious question, I#m always impressed when I go to cricket how it matters to people, but they enjoy the day, the sport the occasion, and don't finish the afternoon slagging off everyone. Then football seems so very different, and I don't understand why.

Blimey, if you think this is a silly poll, you haven't spent much time on here have you.

You dont understand why, jeesus mate its called passion.

 

[Gritt23]

Oh yeah, that's right, I'm not at all passionate about the Albion. Yep, that'll be it.

 

[Meade's Ball]

WHen England lost the opening Test in the desert, there was a succinct 14000 word summary of all the wrongdoings in their physical and mental preparations. Even now the list of letdowns by management and professionals is around 8 pages long. It's not just football. If something you dream of is regularly a disappointment then of course each game ends with a thundery storm of repetitive blandity. And it simply becomes a norm and emotional release.

English people often get annoyed if a bus is 30 seconds later than the electronic announcer silently flashed. If you get struck by that self-same bus because you sprinted across trhe road to look at an attractive late-teen's skirt who has just dropped a couple of quid in the gutter, then the driver is the criminal and deserves public death rather than you. We do not have the capacity to judge outside of how our petty readings and soap operas would.

 

[dougdeep]

Oh yeah, that's right, I'm not at all passionate about the Albion. Yep, that'll be it.

Fair enough.