First day off in a while recently. It was a lovely day and it was entirely spent with the wife. A lovely day but she had to put the mockers on it.
“Do you fancy going to football tonight?” She said, I stood looking at her in shock, what a way to ruin a lovely day.
Let me add some substance here, in that we are both season ticket holders at Leicester city. Anyone who follows football will now realise my predicament. We are not a football team really, we are a collection of eleven blokes who just don’t know what the hell they are doing on the pitch, however tonight we broke another record, the first team ever to fail to score a goal in eight consecutive home games. We really are the bad. We are dire. And we have a manger who is like a little rabbit caught in the headlights. He’s out of his depth, bless him.
Anyway I don’t want to bore non football fans as you don’t really deserve that.
Anyway I quite reluctantly agreed to go, so attired in the team colours off we trudged.
Game starts.
45 minutes later at half time we are leaving the stadium, we are 3 goals down, we have played awful, and the only fun and laughs we have had is listening to the away fans taking the mickey out of us all, they were very good at this.
It was disappointing to say the least, but do you know what neither of us were surprised or affected, we just realised that we had made a poor decision and went home and had a drink to laugh at it all.
And there is my question. When does feeling disappointed become acceptable and normal?
This is what the internet says;
Disappointment becomes “normal” when it’s a frequent, yet manageable part of life, rather than a persistent source of distress. It’s about learning to accept that not everything goes as planned and finding ways to cope with setbacks, rather than avoiding them altogether.
And that’s what being a football supporter (At least at our club) is, in a nutshell.
Being so bad has taken us beyond being a persistent source of distress to becoming a frequent more manageable part of our life. And we just have to accept we are really that bad and take it just like a friendly slap on the back. Something is wrong at the KP and needs attending to.
Good I’m glad I’ve cleared that up then.
Have a wonderful day, be happy.
Foxes Den 