This mirrors how I feel about the game nowadays. I went to my first Manchester City game in 1969. I've had season tickets and been up and down the motorways for the away games (including Coventry). I take my lad to a few games a season and still look out for their results. Match of the day used to be a weekend highlight but I struggle to stay awake when it's on!
I stopped going the match regularly when I started fell running.
I realised I got little pleasure anymore doing one, and got lots out of the other. So I sacked the match off.
Saving a fortune, and don;t miss it. At all really.
I've got some pretty decent memories even though I was born in 1990 - Dortmund being the latest one, finally witnessed a "European Classic" instead of hearing about St Etienne etc from my family for the past 15 years...although when we won as much as we did in the 80's, it's always going to be hard to keep that going - 6 league titles, 2 FA Cups, 2 European Cups etc - gutted I just missed out on being alive for those, ha!
This season's Premier League was very interesting though, finally some teams bucked the trend and teams like us (Liverpool) and Chelsea fell short due to the likes of Leicester, West Ham & Southampton showing consistent form
Get in Hull City,a return to the Premier League, good game, great goal. Up the tigers!!!!
Well done Hull City. I hope that Steve Bruce remains at the club and the perspective of the club being sold does not derail next season.
Cal mate, if you want to hear boring tails of the good old days, no need to rely on your family, I'm more than happy to step in although the 70's was more my era.
Ask your family if any of them were at Doncaster in January 1974, FA Cup 3rd round replay. Doncaster then bottom of the old 4th division drew 2-2 at Anfield and they hit the bar in the last minute. The replay was a midweek afternoon (the not so good old days of power cuts), not many scousers there that day. we rounded of the day chugging back over the Pennines in a blizzard in my old Austin A40, having won the replay 2-0 Liverpool went on to win the Cup that year, happy days