We get aggitated, growl and throw things about and mutter obseneties under our breath, which must sound familiar to every woman as they go through with it every month. The build up to the game can take hours. We wait with high hopes, praying that this game could be the turning point for my team. A win today will mean climbing away from the relegation zone or getting closer to the European places, i.e the ‘top six’, but it never happens.
You wonder whether to help around the house to pass the time? Naw! Too much effort, anyway you need to focus your mind on strategy and planning to win the game. It’s amazing how simple it all seems when your slouched on the sofa. Will 3pm ever get here!! You start flicking through the channels, Sky Sports, BBC and even that so called new sports channel Setanta?!! Listening to what they have to say about your team, the moment you hear some negative remarks or that your team may get slaughtered you switch over to the other channels for a more symphathetic opinion. They don’t give your team any hope either so you start cursing the analysts. By this time you’ve resigned to the fact that your team is definitely going to lose, because the experts on the sports channels said so. After all they should know, shouldn’t they?
At this stage you decide it may be better to go shopping and come back at 4.45pm and just catch the final scores and cut out the stress of listening to how your team conceding in the first few seconds to go down in history as the fastest goal scored in the entire league. On the other hand it could turn out to be the best game in the history of football and your team triumphs! 3pm and you hear the games have kicked off so you get comfortable on the sofa and lo and behold there’s a goal! In the first five seconds and it’s against your team! Time to switch off the tv and now where’s the vacuum cleaner?
Any other frustrated football fans suffering from PMT out there?
Surinder Kumar
Studio Manager
I suspect you will be handed the vacuum cleaner on Saturday :-)
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ReplyDeleteHmmmm - brought up by a Middlesbrough fan, now sharing Saturday afternoons with a Heart of Midlothian supporter, I am all-too familiar with the male form of PMT. I can share the following tips for other WAGS affected by the syndrome:
ReplyDeleteDO NOT say 'Come on dear, it's only a game.'
DO NOT suggest that perhaps the other side played better
DO NOT remind him that nobody likes a bad loser, even if it's true
DO bake a cake - the aroma of baking seems to have a profoundly calming effect
DO memorise a list of historic victories, so that you can say, "Ah, but remember when...?"
DO go shopping. There's nothing like a steep credit card bill to take his mind off the pain.
Also, whatever Surinder says, I have never yet met a man who would take up housework to avoid the footie.