Sport has been pretty important in the last nine months. All the re-runs during the first lockdown were all right for a bit, but live sport every day provides an escape. I don't think I've watched as much Premier League football as I have in the last six months since the nineties. It's always on and I'm always in and there's precious little else happening to follow that's not a massive downer.
Even if nobody can go, I doubt there's been a time in my lifetime when so many people have needed their sports teams just to give them something to cheer about for a couple of hours at the weekend. And nobody should be surprised after the last twenty years that Forest are competing to be the worst professional football team in England at cheering up their supporters during a pandemic. 7 wins in 37. That's our team. You Reds.
But it really has been this bad before, and many times, you only quote the first part of my post which depicts the last couple of games as the straw that broke the camels back but the rest of the post highlights previous bad times and discusses the shit that is the current situation. All football is poor no atmosphere and no passion but this season I have stopped watching anything to do with the premier league - it’s so dull and although there have been many disappointing performances I still care and know they can do so much better and the hope is that they will. We all know of course that it’s the hope that kills ya
Most of the last few seasons have been absolutely depressing, but I think that the good run at the start of last season followed by the dross served up since has made things feel so much worse.
While I would imagine that crowds can lift players and that a lack of crowds could have affected our players, but more than it's affected other teams, I wouldn't have thought so?
Our record spell outside the top tier is 32 seasons which includes 7 second world war seasons when normal league football was suspended. We are now in the 22nd season since we were last relegated and we look no where near to getting back to the promised land, and haven't for most of the years since we were relegated from the Prem.
Last edited by I'm Red Till Dead; 23-01-21 at 21:41.
Forest need someone that has been proven to take an absolute shit storm and turn it completely on its head leaving everyone apart from those that don't meet the requirements better off.
Oh yes, I know! I really do...a point which I made in my original post. But then it has been bad, or worse, before it’s made me passionately angry. The current situation makes me utterly dispassionate. And I guess I found that confusing. But the discussion on this thread, which I now really wish I’d titled ‘I’ve lost that Loving Feeling’ has helped me explore those feelings further.
So when we starting FC Forest up then lads?
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Haven't bothered to read the whole thread.
I'll just keep pottering along quietly. I'm fortunate, don't need help, I can sort out my own problems.
Funnily enough Forest keep me sane. You have to take the rough with the smooth, that's life.
I’ve followed Forest for the best part of 50 years. I became a fan just before the glory years in the ‘70s. I’ve followed my team when deployed around the world in the mob, when our only contact with football would be when the Radio Operators would print off the Saturday results or we’d hear them on the World Service.
In the last two decades in general or in more recent times in particular either football has changed or I have changed, or possibly both. For a number of years I have had no interest in the national team, no interest in top flight football and little interest in what other teams were doing in the same division. I became only interested in Forest and the results of the teams that affected us directly.
I don’t go to matches anymore. I follow Forest through the medium of radio and would keep up with events and news through this forum. I can’t even be bothered to listen to the radio now. I always checked in for the results but after today’s result I just thought ‘meh’. How long before I stop looking for the results?
I’ve lost all enthusiasm and am full of indifference. I think I’m on the verge of giving up on football entirely. I’ve lost the ability to care anymore. I’ve got other things in my life to focus on.
There is still the slightest hope that things may change but, as others have said oft times before, it’s the hope that kills you.
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