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Anyone else zoned out on all things Charlton and football?
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I have to be in the right mood to look at Bonkers Shenanigans. Sometimes days and days go by without so much as a peek, then I have a catch up session where I look* at every post I can until I'm called away or I sense madness setting in. I don't do it because I particularly want to, but out of some misplaced sense of duty, or honour, or some other such silly notion. This suggests to me that the madness isn't a temporary affliction that 'sets in'. It's more likely to be something that's always there but which gets triggered by reading the endless hypotheses of desperate people, trying earnestly to decipher the code and find out what's really happening to our beloved club.
*I say 'look at' because in reality I'm not reading much of it at all, not in any proper sense, anyway. I'm skimming; looking for keywords, looking for posts with likes, looking for trusted posters. Or failing that, looking for fish puns. And when those things magically come into alignment, I might just give a post my full attention. My happiest Bonkers Shenanigans moments though are when none of those things appear and I can sit there in dreamy ignorance, letting everything pass me by. Sometimes I can scroll through several pages at a time, taking in absolutely nothing, just scrolling and scrolling whilst blissfully unaware of the conjecture, supposition and repugnance flashing before my eyes.5 -
like most of us I have a little more time to kill at the moment so probably spend a bit more time than usual trawling the various sites.I just keep looking hoping for some good news (It is really overdue),someone else has bought us,Southall found floating down the river,or banged up,we live in hopes.1
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In a country where the virus is pretty much under control, and hasn't been crippled by it for three months, yes...WK6824Nine said:whoever says football can't return is fibbing. Been watching that K-League match on the BBC and its entertaining enough. i imagine its lower championship upper league 1 standard. having no fans isn't good but the sport itself is engaging to watch.2 -
I'm spending the time reading, researching and learning about the history of the game - particularly that outside of the regular/UK side of it which we all know about.
Copa90 do some fantastic documentaries on international rivalries, and there are some cracking ones on Netflix/Amazon Prime as well.
I've also started reading the book 'The Ball Is Round', which is a 900+ page book detailing the history of Football and really tells some great stories about the surrounding culture of the game.
I have to admit - its making me miss football more and more. Not necessarily for the actual 90 mins of the game itself, but everything else around it. That attachment to something which has always been a constant in life.
I made a long, long walk to and from The Valley today just to soak in the area for a bit.
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I only look at the bite sized thread re the ownership battle and I have never read a Grapevine post in my life. Sorry GV nothing personal.1
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I've been in full summer mode, sunshine, gardening and reading. Repairing the outhouse, then the doors and windows will need painting.
And there's plenty of stuff needing to be done to the house, which will just have to wait a bit.
Miss my GF, family and those friends who are a long way away right now. But football? almost forgotten all about it.
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I have finally realised, I do not like watching repeats of old football matches.
Feck me, BBC/Sky/Whoever stop showing the best of the year that was the best but we didn’t yet know it!!
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Never read a Grapevine thread.eaststandmike said:I only look at the bite sized thread re the ownership battle and I have never read a Grapevine post in my life. Sorry GV nothing personal.
You are missing out there Mike.0 -
Lost all interest in football and the Charlton saga is depressing but with what’s going on every day in peoples lives seems unimportant if I’m honest. Could not give two shits if the premier league of FL comes back.3
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i'll still be going til the day i die but the endless stream of shit owners we've had is just boring now - don't think i missed a post on the takeover thread but just can't be arsed with it all over again - its beyond a joke - quicker we get into administration and start again - coz that is whats gonna happen - the better.2
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German football returns on Friday!KBslittlesis said:I have finally realised, I do not like watching repeats of old football matches.
Feck me, BBC/Sky/Whoever stop showing the best of the year that was the best but we didn’t yet know it!!
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Watched the 79 Cup Final on ITV yesterday. This is what it’s come to. It took a while to get used to players passing the ball back to the keeper and he picks it up - with bare hands!1
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Surely watching past events shows that the glory DOES matter. We can now watch past matches and think about the history rather than watching game after game, and trophy after trophy without thinking about those that won it before.Cafc43v3r said:I don't think I have got my head round that my life will never be the same as it was a month ago.
I am not missing sport in the slightest. I am actually enjoying all the social media coverage of historical sporting events. Great goals, classic matches, world cup finals, heroic victories and the such like. But they are five minute highlights at most.
I used to really think that the glory in sport mattered. 3 or 4 once in a generation sporting events happened last summer, I soaked it in, celebrated like a mad man and commiserated like a broke man.
Now I just don't think it matters at all. Not just sport in general, Charlton as well. I don't think I'll ever love either like I did. They all just seem so unimportant now.
Personally I've been reading books on the history of football following on from watching 'The English Game'.
I am definitely not 'zoned out' on football. I love football and Charlton. I may not like all this 'Project Restart' bollocks, and may not watch it even if they do restart, but I love football, the history, my memories of watching Charlton, and this is one of the few things that make me proud of where I come from.3 -
I've actually enjoyed some of the football repeats, not the "live" matches, but rather the highlights like the Match of their Day programme
Old enough that I've forgotten most of how the games went, but recent enough that the players are still familiar2 -
I'm really missing football and sport in general.
I sit in front of the telly all forlorn, endlessly channel hopping and finding nothing of note. In fact even shows that I used to like piss me off now. The new format of celebs sitting at home at the end of dodgy phone lines trying to be amusing, funny, intelligent or whatever annoys me. Take Have I Got News for You or Graham Norton or even The One Show, they all try to generate an atmosphere, generally by acting over excited as though this is fun and then laugh falsely at every word that is uttered. It's all rubbish I tell ya!
I hate the new normal. I even hate the term 'new normal'. I have to believe that all this is all abnormal and things will eventually return to how they used to be. 🙏
*Just read the above out loud - not exactly a ray of sunshine am I? 😞
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Same, Charlton still don’t win no matter how many times the game is played.KBslittlesis said:I have finally realised, I do not like watching repeats of old football matches.
Feck me, BBC/Sky/Whoever stop showing the best of the year that was the best but we didn’t yet know it!!
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I've been watching a lot of random Sport on YouTube either highlights or the full thing to try and get my own fixRaith_C_Chattonell said:I'm really missing football and sport in general.
I sit in front of the telly all forlorn, endlessly channel hopping and finding nothing of note. In fact even shows that I used to like piss me off now. The new format of celebs sitting at home at the end of dodgy phone lines trying to be amusing, funny, intelligent or whatever annoys me. Take Have I Got News for You or Graham Norton or even The One Show, they all try to generate an atmosphere, generally by acting over excited as though this is fun and then laugh falsely at every word that is uttered. It's all rubbish I tell ya!
I hate the new normal. I even hate the term 'new normal'. I have to believe that all this is all abnormal and things will eventually return to how they used to be. 🙏
*Just read the above out loud - not exactly a ray of sunshine am I? 😞
Olympic channel for example has a lot of full re-runs of events from London 2012
Another one I've really gotten into is watching downhill MTB events
Really is entertaining to watch the way they have to maneuver the bike, especially in the Urban Events as the camera view is a GoPro attached to the rider
Certainly not bothering with any live TV, any actual shows I'm watching are via. Netflix or Amazon Prime0 -
This situation is putting a nail in the coffin of live TV.
,...........and of live life?0
