For a long time now, I absolutely hate watching TV live on the TV or on a computer. I used to play as a semi-pro and I was an OK midfield player. As the years went by, I obviously became separated from the blood and thunder of the game. I have been to Goodison Park many hundreds of times in my life and have always enjoyed the games. Watching games live but not at the match makes me so anxious that it is terribly stressful; so much so that I can't see myself watching many more games unless they are recorded. I wonder if anyone else here feels the same anxiousness?
I have been to one football match in my life, I felt the opposite, bored, take up something more zen like such as archery, no anxiety whatsoever, focus on the arrows flight
If I do, I pick up the remote and usually start channel surfing. But I don't think it is down to being anxious, rather boredom due to nothing exciting happening worthy of watching.
My cousin played as a pro. He played for QPR and Wimbledon. He is still in the game and still watches football, both live and on TV. Personally, I enjoy watching football on TV. But not too much as it can get a bit boring 2 or 3 times a week.
I played football all the time as a kid and my dad took me to the match a lot when I was about 10 yo. He has a lot to answer for. I will be taking my son up to Liverpool to watch Everton in Goodison Park as soon as the lockdown ends and the crowds are admitted back into the stadium, and so it goes on and on.
Don't you think you should start small, by attending a game or three of pub footie first?? For varied amounts of time each time.? Just to make sure, as children attention span, nowadays, ain't what it used to be anymore. And the whole thing may bore him to distraction and a display of extreme fidgeting.
I played football until I broke my femur in a car accident aged 33. It was hard work watching football on TV. I used to go watching Bolton Wanderers with my dad when I was younger then when I got into my teens I started to watch Man City. Now I pay an iptv provider and can watch on my TV any team in the world.
Not trying to pick you up on this one, John, but Shankley's actual phrase was misquoted: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/bill-shanklys-famous-life-death-21784583 An eye-opener was what he wrote about Everton: From https://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/oct/18/bill-shankly-liverpool-manager Shankly also revealed his shock that he had found solace at once-hated rivals Everton. "I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have been by Liverpool," he wrote.
