Just been running through the activites of the past few weeks or so, and beginning to notice a common trend.

I've been occupied on Sundays playing football, Saturdays and Fridays either watching Victory live, on TV and listening to Leeds. Been all the way to Sydney just to watch football and my Tuesday nights are occupied with indoor football.
After the big weekend I feel asleep at 6pm last night only to wake for, you guessed it, football. I watch Altetico vs Barca then fell asleep again.

At work I talk football to anyone who will listen, wear my Leeds Vic shirt sometimes and get into my car covered in LUFC stickers. My room is a football memorabillia haven. My MySpace is all Leeds, my MSN name is Leeds, my email address is Leeds and every website I visit is related to football.

Without football I would never have:
Met you blokes.
Travelled interstate.
Made numerous friends
and would never have travelled overseas.

So this begs the question, is too much football a bad thing?

No, although too much football manager is.

I see football as a metaphor for life. The similarities are many, and is one of the reasons why I think football is by far the most supported sport in the world.


PS - As jimmy once said, myspace is for emo cunts, get yourself on facebook. With recent additions to the fold including Dave and Liam, our presence is changing the nature of the site itself.

Good thread. Football > Life. It's my religion. Also fantastic that we have an awesome crew of lads to head to games with.


I'm just stoked that Jermaine Beckford of all people would send me a comment!

Great thread Sammy.

I've noticed lately my old school friends are fading away (except a select few) and my priorities have changed to not necesserily all things football, but to the people I met through, or because of football. Its the one thing you can rely on, rock up on game day to the terrace and see the same friendly faces who are always up for a laugh no strings attached and are not afraid to make penises of themselves, which is what life is all about.

It is definitely my social priority as my best mates are all involved in it as much as I am, and I feel dissapointed for some of my mates who never gave it ago or never understood my passion for it and have since perhaps lost my friendship.

My mates I've made through football and my girlfriend is my life these days, luckily my girlfriend understands my passion for it...Sunday is 'marathon' day/night and she knows its my time, and loves me more for it. I need football for my wellbeing these days, its my addiction and a good addiction at that.

Facebook??

Need SIMPLE instructions for an old old Gaffer

please advise / help / stop sniggering

A 'social networking' site, you sign up, create a profile etc.. then you can write on your mates 'walls', post photos, join groups etc.. you see who are your friends friends etc... hard to explain the attraction to it but rupert murdoch is pissed off as he bought myspace (similair site) when it was the in thing and now this supposedly is. site is

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Must have missed this thread, don't remember it popping up but anyway, I couldn't agree more.

I walk into my room to see Leeds flags and posters everywhere, a signed Lucas Radebe poster on the wall, photos from my trip to the UK, a signed Leeds shirt by the team, a signed Leeds scarf by the Kaiser Chiefs, match tickets, programmes, magazines....and a bed.

I don't have the same love of Victory as I do Leeds. It's hard to put the figure on exactly why that is the case, but it is. I love the people I know through Victory - I've met stacks of great mates but the football doesn't excite me in a huge way and the way the game is run i.e. having a finals series, FFA running everything - that isn't football to me.

The only real way I can justify it is that Leeds has been a part of my life for so long now that is just second nature. I am seriously fucking addicted to Leeds!

I like to keep my 'football' life and my 'social/work' (not inc. friends I've made through football) seperate because people just don't understand. Most of my mates at school are your stereotypical Aussies who focus on the flares, "riots", etc and it just frustrates me to even talk football with them. People not involved heavily with football just don't know why the game can become so addictive and why you like it so much.

But sometimes I can't help it! As evidenced by dancing around like a dickhead at a party only to find out Jamma Beckford has won it for us at Forest in the 90th minute. Cue constant 'Jermaine Beckford for England' chants all night

Anyway, I fucking love football.
And Leeds.