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Why Brits love going to the Football

Why Brits love going to the Football

Going to the Football on a Saturday afternoon has continued to be one of the biggest past times in Britain for many years. From the smell of stale beer, under cooked burgers and at times hapless lumping off the ball up the pitch, us Brits just can’t seem to get enough.

Last season 14 million people attended Premier League games alone. So what is it about Football that convinces this many people to trade in their normal Saturday afternoons of walking around generic shopping centres looking to blow their hard earnt wages on the silly latest trends, or mowing the lawn over and over again in their 6 x 6 gardens.

Uncertainty of outcome

You go to the cinema and time and time again you have already predicted the films ending before you have polished off your £6 tub of popcorn. Football gives us something different, that level of excitement which you used to get as a kid at Christmas. Who would have predicted that we would have scored a last minute winner against the league leaders? Or the player that rarely gets booked two foots an opposition player and gets sent off?

Nothing beats experiencing Football in the flesh and knowing anything can happen at any point. Zidane deciding his sister’s honour was bigger than winning the World cup and David Beckham picking out the top corner from a free kick to put England through.

Being part of the Football family

“You can watch what you like on tele, but nothing gives you the same feeling of being at the game, the journey and the company you have with you” are the views of Arsenal supporter’s club member Mark Mills. Now all families may be ‘alright’ but let’s face it trying to talk to your Nan about the injustice of a dodgy penalty call away at Bury is a waste of time. Hunter S Thompson claims that “Football is the universal language”. He also claims “A serious Football fan is never alone. We are legion, and Football is often the only thing we have in common”

One Coventry fan claimed to me; “if we just travelled away from home and won, it doesn’t matter if I catch my wife in bed with another man. Nothing is removing this smile”.

The arm chair fan

We all know that fan that lives in Exeter but supports Manchester United. Now the claim “my granddad used to support them” is not a valid excuse. If anything it just shows your granddad was as much as a glory hunter as you are. With Sky Sports and BT sports battling it out by airing 4 million games a week, being an armchair fan is easier than ever. “Why go to a game when you can watch it in your living room” is a popular cry from an armchair fan. This may be true however seeing

So I urge all of you reading this. Get yourself off that sofa and get down your local club and experience live Football. You never know what will happen.