How important is your football club to you?

[lake district canary 0]

I suspect that we all have a varying degree of how important football is to us, but how important is our club to us as individuals?  Is it the be all and end all of your existence?   Do you live for nothing else than supporting Norwich City?   Or is it a weekend distraction?    Do you just look out for the results each weekend?   Is it important to you enough that you spend time and money travelling around to every match?   Do you wear nothing else other than NCFC kit?  Are your curtains NCFC???    Do you go to every match, but don''t really think about it that much during the week, or get too excited or depressed if we do well or badly?    Or if we lose does it affect you so badly that you can''t think straight for the next seven days or until the next match?     Or if there is a Saturday free during the season  do you get depressed because there isn''t a match?  

 

 

 

Because I live away its difficult to be completely involved, but I know that if I can get to matches, they take me over completely - and I talk alot about football to colleagues etc - and spend alot of time on here.   Just wondered, really, about the rest of us........................especially as there are those on here who "appear" to be imposters or at least not that bothered and only come on here to wind people up...........

 

 

 

Is anyone prepared to own up??  [:D]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Nexus_Canary 1,206]

My GF goes as far as to check City results, especially the home games ( as I hold a season ticket ) She knows not to break any bad news or ask me to do anything that will anoy me on a loss.... however she also knows if she wants something and we just won 4-0 the second I walk through the door is proably a good time to ask !I have missed holidays, weddings, birthdays , made excuses and lied to attend Games before :)

[ricardo 8,034]

There was a time when if we had lost it used to spoil my whole weekend. Many times the garage door would get pulled off the runners and the cat was always in a place of safety when I kicked the door. After chucking a few "F''s" into inanimate objects I would eventually sit down with my head in my hands muttering, "well that''s the last time they get my money".  Mrs Ricardo would look up from her book and gently smile and say, "why do you do this to yourself every Saturday?". I didn''t know the answer then and to tell the truth, 30 odd years later I still don''t know. All I can say to any new or young supporters is that the first fifty years are the worst. After that you slowly mellow but supporting a club like NCFC will never be a bed of roses.[;)]

[First Wizard 0]

[quote user="ricardo"]There was a time when if we had lost it used to spoil my whole weekend. Many times the garage door would get pulled off the runners and the cat was always in a place of safety when I kicked the door. After chucking a few "F''s" into inanimate objects I would eventually sit down with my head in my hands muttering, "well that''s the last time they get my money".  Mrs Ricardo would look up from her book and gently smile and say, "why do you do this to yourself every Saturday?".

I didn''t know the answer then and to tell the truth, 30 odd years later I still don''t know. All I can say to any new or young supporters is that the first fifty years are the worst. After that you slowly mellow but supporting a club like NCFC will never be a bed of roses.[;)]

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Nail on head.

[Gingerpele 0]

I love football, and this club.

The best way I can describe it, is to talk a little about Barcelona. Its no secret I like them, there my ''second team'' so to speak, there football is fantastic. But when they lose, I don''t really care, it doesn''t bother me. And when they win, i''m perhaps a bit happier than if they drew or lost, but its nothing major. Now, watching Norwich. The result and performance have a direct effect on my mood, if we lose, and don''t play very well i''ll be upset and/or disappointed. If we win, get a good result (could be drawing with a good team), play well, give it our all, i''ll be happy, proud.

I read some of the negative posts on here, and just think that if I thought like that, I just couldn''t enjoy football. How can you be so pessimistic and still turn up at the game and enjoy it? Supporting Norwich is probably the thing i''ve done the longest in my life, 12 years now. There have been some big ups and big downs, but its all part of being a supporter and I wouldn''t swap it for anything else.

[Victor Segura and the Yellow Cards 0]

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[quote user="ricardo"]There was a time when if we had lost it used to spoil my whole weekend. Many times the garage door would get pulled off the runners and the cat was always in a place of safety when I kicked the door. After chucking a few "F''s" into inanimate objects I would eventually sit down with my head in my hands muttering, "well that''s the last time they get my money".  Mrs Ricardo would look up from her book and gently smile and say, "why do you do this to yourself every Saturday?".

I didn''t know the answer then and to tell the truth, 30 odd years later I still don''t know. All I can say to any new or young supporters is that the first fifty years are the worst. After that you slowly mellow but supporting a club like NCFC will never be a bed of roses.[;)]

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Nail on head.

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There was a time when if we had lost I''d listen to CanaryCall anyway, many times have I almost knocked my mug off it''s coaster trying angrily for the on/off switch on the radio.

The cat always hid so that I didn''t run it over on the way to the kitchen and after shaking my head and tutting "I told you so" I''d stay sitting with my head in my hands muttering "I''m glad they didn''t get my money". Mrs Wiz would look up from her book and say, "As if it matters, you don''t even go."

All I can say to young or new supporters is that I got to turn the radio off at half time that fateful day against Colchester....didn''t cost me a penny.

 

 

[ROBFLECK 134]

I used to be devastated after we lost a game, it ruined my weekend and everybody knew they''d lost... I used to pace up and down frantically next to the radio when it was an away match I couldn''t go to... I don''t live in Norfolk no more, so I go to games when I can go ( about 15 a season). My wife shakes her head at me and says , is it that important? ;-) I''m still very passionate but am able to put things into perspective when it comes to my life and NCFC. I follow everything I can , linked to the club, I am a shareholder thanks to my grandparents and I''ve got all sorts of Norwich City memorabilia... Like Ricardo said supporting a club like NCFC will never be a bed of roses, but at least it''s still REAL football, not a pure money based"football firm" that''s on the stockmarket.

[Indy 3,471]

Since my first day in 1977 agains WBA, it''s just fotball, entertaining, exciting, frustrating with a mixture of high''s and lows!

 

Through the Bond years, the Walker years and many others I have been (when not playing) there to watch the ground evolve from what was a dump!!! to where it is now, been to the cup finals, derby games and into Europe too!

 

I''ve never been one to wind myself up ala the Radio Norfolk mob, never found the need to get excited, I have my opinions as ohters on here, some balanced other half empty glass and then the glass half full! but it''s just football, it has no real impact in my life other than to use as a social event to meet what I class as good friends and gets me into the city a few times a month!

 

Did I ever protest at Chase, no, he did what he thought was best, I am not privvy to the details of his tenure and as scuh can only comment on his charimanship from a fans view point the same for Delia!

 

My stand out hero for NCFC is Mr Watling he has shown what this club meant to him!

 

As I always say it''s only football and if you get yourself so wound up it''s not good for you!

[ROBFLECK 134]

Good last point Indy, as I found out the hard way :-) ... I was in Munich too...and that must have been the most ecstatic I have ever been ( with the thumping of the scum following closely) at a city away game...

[Two penneth 0]

of somewhat less importance than the health and happiness of my family of course, oh and even my cat and dog if I''m honest but a bit ahead of the tropical fish.

[Two penneth 0]

not as important as the health and happiness of my family and friends of course, or even the health of the dog and cat if I''m honest...but some way ahead of the tropical fish.

[Wings of a Sparrow 1,708]

Nicely summed up there nulli.

[Mister Chops 7]

How much does it mean to me?  Let me tell you about the "Dogs of War".  During the mid-nineties, I was the youngest employee at a local printing company who had a corporate box in the City Stand which nobody else ever used as they were off playing golf or going to garden centres, or whatever the nearly-dead do with their weekends.  I took my girlfriend to almost every home match and during the second half I''d push her down onto the floor and take her doggy style while watching our midfield of Milligan, Carey and Megson critically injure at least four opposition players.  I literally fired bullets when we scored.  THAT''S how much it means to me.  Dogs of War, baby.  Dogs of M**therf**king War.

[lake district canary 0]

[quote user="Mister Chops"]How much does it mean to me?  Let me tell you about the "Dogs of War". 

During the mid-nineties, I was the youngest employee at a local printing company who had a corporate box in the City Stand which nobody else ever used as they were off playing golf or going to garden centres, or whatever the nearly-dead do with their weekends. 

I took my girlfriend to almost every home match and during the second half I''d push her down onto the floor and take her doggy style while watching our midfield of Milligan, Carey and Megson critically injure at least four opposition players.  I literally fired bullets when we scored.  THAT''S how much it means to me.  Dogs of War, baby. 

Dogs of M**therf**king War.
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Quick nurse, a cup of tea for Mr Chops - put the usual in it - before he gives himself  a hernia!!  [:S]

[Hucka Hucka Huckerby 0]

At one point it was by far the most important thing in my life by a country mile! My entire week would be ruined when we lost & would be doubly worse if 1p5wich won.

Now I have children & things are put into perspective. I realise some things in life are more important. However, if we lose now I still can''t watch SSN, MOTD or look on any website where football will be mentioned for a day or 2!

[Gaz_in_NZ 9]

I went to my first game at Carrow Rd in 1965 and was completely hooked for life. My parents emigrated to Perth, Western Australia, in 1970 which made supporting difficult but I used to listen to BBC via short wave kicking off usually around 11pm and often just got to hear the results when City weren''t in the top flight, the newspaper in Perth just used to print the results on a monday! When I turned 18 I moved back to Norwich and attended most home matches in 75-76 season before coming back to Australia. I spent many late, late saturday nights with a few beers and my short wave radio often with very dodgy reception indoors so I would go outside in the garden. I''ve had many years of supporting City all on my own in Australia until my first son, Sean, was born in 87 and I gradually educated him into all things yellow and green. In 1995 my grandad passed away in Canada and I was left $5000 in his will so me and Sean flew from Perth to watch City v Man Ure, we lost 0-2 but it was a magic night. With internet and pay TV supporting has become a hell of a lot easier!NCFC has been a large part of my life and hopefully will continue to be, I couldn''t imagine what life would be like without my football club.