The tortured psychology of the football fan.

Absurdistan

Interesting BBC article made all the better by this quote.

Eventually I found myself looking at the fixture list and thinking: 'I'd be happy with a point away to Fulham.' And before I knew it, Kevin Lisbie was scoring a hat-trick against us at Charlton. Now, that was depressing
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John Harper
Long-term Liverpool supporter

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26704856

Oggy Red

Quote of the day, taken from that article:

"It's a divide between people who have a brain and those who haven't."

Oggy Red

Another extract from that article:

"Some of the happiest fans will be those who have come to expect not winning," says Simons. "Winning has challenged some City fans because for 30-odd years they had a clear idea of who they were.

They weren't that down if they lost because that's just what they did. And if they did win, it was great."

That's us, folks.

Absurdistan

"Neuroscientists at Cambridge have studied how you get rewards to your brain and how it is processed," says Simons. "The amount of the chemical dopamine, which makes us feel happy, that is released is linked to how expected the reward was. If you expect to win and you do, you don't get much reward."

Hence following Charlton we get rare but kick ass highs,

dizzee

That explains why I don't get excited when we lose... it's because I expect us to lose every game. So if I expect us to win every game, does that mean I'll get excited when we lose?