Re: Fans attitude towards Champions League football
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2014 12:15 pm
Original Dub wrote:I dreamt of us playing in the Champions League because I used to love the drama of watching it as a neutral.
Now that I kick every ball, I just find it frustrates the shit out of me. I hate that the refs blow for every bit of contact, meaning the teams with the smallest/cheating/diving players tend to reach the latter stages. The ones who know how to "play the game".
"You have to adapt to the Champions League" is a common lump of shit line thrown at us from robot pundits. Adapt? Learn to work the ref more like.
We have a team built to play fair and that will work in every competition except the Champions League.
I want to win it, just to say we won everything.
Don't get me wrong, I'll still watch it. And I'll watch the latter stages after we're knocked out. Because I'll be neutral again and I can relax and watch the soap opera... enjoying it with a couple of beers and without it affecting me any more than the likes of True Detective or Breaking Bad did.
Yes. to a certain extent anyway. But its a minor part of the equation.