Was thinking...

...about my last post and the sense of disappointment i felt about the weekends football. Why do we get het up such trivial past times. Sure football both playing and watching can be immensely enjoyable, but speaking as one who has done a fair bit of both it can be fucking god awful doing both at times. When you are out there on the pitch getting papped 5-0 it stinks. I suppose you can put that down to pride being hurt. As for watching i'm still not sure what binds fan to club in this modern era. It's obviously to do with a sense of belong and identity. Being a Motherwell fan in central Scotland for me is about not being a Rangers and Celtic fan as much as anything else. I like watching football, but when i was lured as youngster into watching Motherwell it was as much about not being involved in the sectarinism that engulfs the Old Firm as it was about supporting your local team.

It was my uncle that took me to my first game, although my interest in football and my mums desire to steer me away from likes of Rangers and Celtic led to both my mum and elder sister attending regularly. My sister is still a season ticket holder herself. So i guess Motherwell Football Club fills a need in my live, I socialise around it and even play for a supporters team. It's enabled me to meet people and make friends. It's not necesarily the best way of making friends, I often find that while many of the people i associate with have Motherwell and a love of football in common with me not all that often much else. Still as a bloke in Scotland that takes you a fair way and you have many a loose friendship pretty much based purely on football.

Still i do maintain that a person should by and large support their local club unless the culture of that club is abhorant(e.g. Rangers or Celtic) because the club is there to represent an area, why else do we name the vast majority of clubs after the place they are located in? It's probably a bit more tenuous now, epsecialy at the top end of the game i don't think there are that many in the first teams of Arsenal and Chelsea that grew up supporting the club they play for.

For many reasons I can barely remember just now I was rather disillusioned with my club last year, their were issues over treatment of the home fans compared to away ones, well the OF away ones etc and I had disagreements with many fans over their reactions etc and I thought the club was treating the fanbase quite shabbily. That more or less holds but i think it was as much due to the environment of Scottish Football at the time, every penny was and still is a prisoner. We've got a new sponsor and an improved TV deal now so hopefully money is less tight, if i am being fair to the club they were trying to maximise income and though it was often done in a poor way with the fans seeming to be treated with contempt at times well no money equals a poverty of playing staff, relegation battles and an uncertain future. I'm willing to concede tha heart if not head was always in the right place, or was it other way about?

Anyway season tickets for next season are already on sale, at the moment i have no compulsion to buy one, be it with cash or plastic. It's not that i won't be at the games or am refusing to get one it's really that I can't be bothered. We all need a break, the demand for my seat isn't that high it'll be good to get away from it for a bit before i think about the new season lying in wait, after the World Cup i think.

It looks likely that we'll have a new manager for next year and at least one of our established first team players looks like leaving. There is nothing like new signings to get the interest going again but we always leave that to late in the day, why pay them over the summer eh, anyway I've come to the conclusion that I'm not ever going to get the same sense of importance from watching my team. The big occasions are rare enough to get excited about, but they highlight just how much of a so so experience the rest of the time is and end of season games being the worst of the lot. It's good to have the season over.