is it a concern....

...that football helps keep me sane? I didn't post as i'd normally do yesterday, but i came online today to maybe tidy up the ones i quickly posted on saturday and maybe some other stuff. So i read over what i posted about on saturday and i think anyone reading it might well have been worried about my mental state, and then not posting yesterday... well let me reassure anyone i'm quite alright and i wasn't away looking for nearest cliff.

Though the thought did occur that perhaps football isn't the best pastime to distract one from the more serious side to life? Those of us that tend to get into any sport seem to get a bit obsessional about it. It can seriously affect your mood for the rest of the day if not the weekend, do we take it so seriously as a means of shutting out other concerns? I really cannot explain why a bunch of guys i don't really know kicking a ball about can cause such emotional extremes. I've learned to live with it, you enjoy the highs when you can and try not to get the lows bother you to much. But you know in a quiet moment, especialy after a bad defeat, i know i'll find myself applying my amateur football brain to just exactly what went wrong and what, or more likely who, we need to fix it.

Is it a male thing, i'm currently reading Dave Gorman's Googlewhack adventure, which enjoying but not half as funny as Are You Dave Gorman. These are lighthearted books but they do reveal some insight into male obsessive behaviour, taken to the extreme by Mr Gorman, who can at least make a living out of his madness.