fallen out of love with football !

[Blue Armour 4,336]

Its different for different people , but I suppose for almost everyone the interest waxes and wanes at least a bit..

For me for during the past few seasons, whenever I watched Chelsea one thing that was always on my mind was whether Drogba and co. would actually win a European cup during their playing career. Now that it has happened, I sometimes wonder whether anything can top it..

Sure I don't watch every game with a vengeance like I used to, but I still look forward to watching our matches this season.

The new style of our play, and emerging talent has only helped in this regard.

[Ollie 4,400]

It's not the same as it was for sure. I really enjoyed the 90's and early 2000's where there wasn't bucket loads of money but since all the money has come in, it's gotten a bit out of hand. I still love football though like always but i can see where you're coming from. The cheating, the refereeing, the money, the plastic fans. It's a whole new ball game.

[Tomo 21,737]

Even if we were still playing with Malouda, Anelka and Kalou as our front 3 with Essien, Mikel and Lampard behind them week in week out, i would still watch every single Chelsea match, it's like a drug.

At the start of this season i started to watch MOTD and the football league show in full again but gradually i got bored and Fifa 13 coming out has put pay to me watching anything other than Chelsea matches now

[Badboy 1,526]

It's not the same as it was for sure. I really enjoyed the 90's and early 2000's where there wasn't bucket loads of money but since all the money has come in, it's gotten a bit out of hand. I still love football though like always but i can see where you're coming from. The cheating, the refereeing, the money, the plastic fans. It's a whole new ball game.

The problems in football are developing the exact same way as the problems in boxing. What happens off the field is constantly out in the open and there is more going on off the field as on it and that is sad. Boxing developed the same problem, the trash talking and endless promoting brought the sport to its knees because people just want to see the best fight each other they don't want to hear that Mayweather and Pacman can't agree to a fight because of promoters and all that malarky.

[DDA 9,733]

My life is... Hip Hop, Women and Football. I base my everyday life around these three. Without one of my daily three, I start to feel weak and decrepit and life just isn't worth living. :blue scalf:

I did have a period when i was younger when football just didn't matter to me at all. This was during my school days when i was out roaming the streets thinking i was a total bad-man and now I work constantly I have nothing else to look forward to at the weekends other than my beloved Chels. Don't worry Badboy you will rekindle your love for the game once more, time will reunite you both.

[BleedsBlue 1,549]

For me its quite the opposite.I am obsessed with Chelsea and love the sport.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

I went through a stage of this early last season - I just couldn't be bothered with it that much, probably because I'd just started my first year at university. Then we started losing and playing really badly; for some reason that got me back into things. Hard to explain. Sometimes you just get carried away with the importance football, other times it drops down your list of priorities.

Football is one of the most important things in my life, but it definitely ranks behind family, friends, employment and education. If you can have that sort of perspective and realise football is still actually important, but trivial in comparison to other things, you can still be a massive football fan and put other things first. It is quite a delicate balance, but football - or, Chelsea, rather - remains one of the most important things to me in life.

People might call me sad for that, but no-one on here can comment. You're all on a football forum, discussing a football club. You're all as sad as I am, admit it.

[TorontoChelsea 4,064]

It's not the same as it was for sure. I really enjoyed the 90's and early 2000's where there wasn't bucket loads of money but since all the money has come in, it's gotten a bit out of hand. I still love football though like always but i can see where you're coming from. The cheating, the refereeing, the money, the plastic fans. It's a whole new ball game.

I get that 100%. It actually was more difficult for me to follow Chelsea after Roman came for a little bit. We had been spending a fair bit of money the few seasons before that bringing in players like Lampard, Hassalbaink, and Gronkjaer but it was a normal amount of money a big club could spend (and still more than we could afford at the time). When Roman came in, it just went to another level. Obviously, I was happy when we won anything, but it was just different. When you have such a ridiculous competitive advantage, beating most teams is to be expected. It's like racing against someone when you have an F1 car and they have a 1987 Chevy. What exactly does winning prove? That you have more money? Also, because of our spending, we attracted a ridiculous number of fans who view the club as a way to buy all their fantasy players. "Let's go and get him, 30M pounds is a bargain!". I miss the days when fixing an issue at the club meant trying different players in the spot or maybe making a smart buy instead of endless discussions of shopping lists of world class players.

Top teams are always going to spend more money and I'm sure as hell happy Chelsea are a top team, but right now the gap between City, Chelsea, and to a lesser extent, ManU and the rest of the Premier league is just too big. We spend more on youth players than most clubs do on senior players. We have an exciting young team now and I really hope we can finally have managerial stability and reasonable transfer levels going forward and that football figures out a way to bring the spending back to sanity..

[Ollie 4,400]

Oh yeah i forgot about the media shit too because also they need to be ashamed of how they act towards players, not letting them live normal lives and putting every mistake they make in the paper. I am obviously pissed off that they earn so much money but then again, they do have so much pressure on them with millions of ppl watching their every move so in a way, i'm happy not to be famous.

I'm also in 2 ways about our money because yeah it's awesome that we're now a world power but the "how long have you supported Chelsea" is a bit annoying. I'm proud to have seen the old Chelsea for around around 9 years but it does make winning feel less than it felt years ago. The days where we always lost at home to Blackburn, away to Coventry and away at Bolton are now a thing of the past which now if you win it's like meh of course it's gonna be an easy win against them. But i always have the argument that we dont have an unfair advantage because we didn't to anything illegal. Chelsea, Man Utd, Liverpool, Bolton, Reading, Newcastle, Tottenham, QPR, Leyton Orient, Brentford EVERYONE has owners. Roman bought us just like every owner has bought everyone. It's just the case of Roman having more money. It's not like everyone has to have the same amount of money. Even Crawley are doing it. We have more than you, deal with it and shut up illegal? no. You mad bro? Obviously. Oh and massively jealous.

The difference between us and Man Utd, City, Liverpool is that we have an owner who genuinely loves the club and when he's done with us, the kids will take over. QPR had, maybe still have i dunno, richer owners than us. That happened around 4 years ago, they are currently bottom of the premiership, winless from 7 games!!

American's at Man Utd and Liverpool just messed them up. The Glazers put Utd in huge debt and Hicks n Gillette had to sell up as they fucked up over the scale lol.

My problem isn't with Chelsea because i still cannot miss a Chelsea game, i still get up at 4am to watch friendlies, Chelsea is so high up in my life it's ridiculous. I do prefer a Chelsea side playing great football, whipping everyone and challenging for every trophy going than just fighting for mid table because having nothing to play for and knowing from August that you ain't gonna win anything is fucking boring tbh. This is the Chelsea that's unmissable, not the Chelsea of 2001 for example.

I have a few problems:-

The refereeing is a shambles. You get booked for challenges that used to be fair which in my mind are still fair. Dangerous play? Some things that get blown for dangerous play especially in Europe, especially Spain are absolutely unbelievable. High foot? It's football you plank, you have to go for the ball and the studs up challenges, If it's so bad, put football is an indoor sport and remove studs. I see so many red cards and yellow cards which i think to myself, what the fuck could he do? If you can slide for a ball and keep the studs on the floor, you really are a pretty special cunt. Sometimes the ball will be a few inches off the ground but you have to go for it. Football is a contact sport, soon, it won't be. If you win the ball first, it should be fair and dangerous play should only get called up if you actually nail someone!

Also, the fact that we seem to be way behind other sports. Rugby, Tennis, Cricket and other sports have has technology helping their sport for years, yet we still have to cope with blind linesmen and shit referee's (although linesmen aren't half as blind and Cricket umpires to be fair). Cricket umpires need help for run outs, we need help for offsides but ffs we will never get it. It's so easy to do too. Let the guy carry on, if he scores, look at it, the ball is fucking dead, you ain't stopping no game. If he fucks it up, play on!! How hard is this shit to comprehend? Even goal line technology is taking forever, it's surely surely such a simple thing. Money, money, money. They have bucket loads, use it!

Cheating. Actually there's always been cheating but it's come on so much in the last 10 years from the foreign influence. Players like Suarez SHOULD be banned. Caught once, banned for 2 games. Caught again, banned for 6, caught a third lime? 10 FUCKING GAMES! This would make people stop cheating. The FA can moan but they just don't do anything about it so this will carry on.

And yeah, the money is annoying but if it's fair and legitimate, i don't really care that much. It's nice to see teams have some glory. Barca, Real, Liverpool, Man Utd, Bayern, Juve, Milan... these teams have had their time. We're now loving the fact that Chelsea are 4th in global shirt sales And yes, we have won the UCL too so GET IN!

Other than al that, i still am very much in love with football, i watch it and check news on my phone almost 24/7. Maybe because i know i've watched Chelsea since '94 makes my love Chelsea as much as i do but one thing is for sure, my love for Chelsea will never fade and die like west hams bubbles. In fact, talking of West Ham, they had rich owners too who messed em up, and now have Gold and Sullivan who have around half a billion each. What have they done? Everyone has rich owners, ours are just better than everyone elses

And also, Chelsea are now one of the most hated teams in England. If that aint aint a good reason to carry on watching football and supporting the Chels, i don't know what is lol.

Carefree.

[zolayes 14,489]

you make a lot of valid points Ollie....

at one time we were grateful to avoid relegation and have a few decent wins. Now we are spoiled by success.

The PL became not a dream but an expectation. A season without a trophy a disaster.We still had the search for the Holy Grail of

the Champion's League. Now we are Champions of Europe many are starting to realise the thrill of the chase is better than the kill.

So many things are wrong with the beautiful game. Probably the worst is the lack of respect from the ruling bodies and club owners

for the fans.

The game should belong to the fans sadly they are treated without any respect

[Kezza 1,965]

Words can't describe the feeling I get at 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 am, waiting to kick off! Best feeling even though I am soo tired!

Although admittedly it has got me in trouble, part of the reason my partner broke up with me was because I'd rather watch Chelsea than go out to town with her.

But hay, gf's come n go but Chelsea is there forever!!

Biggest thing that pisses me off is cheating and corruption of the game. The media also. The Premier League seems to be turning into a reality tv show with all the drama and that that goes on on and off the pitch.

Don't watch any other league than the EPL and A-league. Not interested in those. But I'll only watch Chelsea live for time reasons.

[NishC300 1,865]

I can't express the excitement, I feel building up to watching any Chelsea match live!

I'd love to watch LOADS OF FOOTBALL ALL WEEKEND. but I can't......

Football(and other sports) is what make my time so much more colourful! The excitement, the passion, the nervousness. It just makes it so amazing!

[Weckerz 3,781]

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N-N-N-NECROBUMP

[Badboy 1,526]

WHAT A BUMP LOL !

[Melanicus 5,208]

WHAT A BUMP LOL !

I'm interested though. Do you still feel the same?

[Badboy 1,526]

I'm interested though. Do you still feel the same?

I've got it back in a way ! I think it was just a phase and it went away. The thing is I don't think i'll ever be as fanatic as I was when I was 10-16 years old !

[Tomo 21,737]

Ever since i got back from Central America my football (overall not just Chelsea) appetite has returned, not to the same extent it was when i was 16 tho.

[OneMoSalah 8,810]

I don't know how you call fall out of love with football, I've been watching and playing football for about 12 years of my life, I still adore football, I don't get how you can fall out of love with it!