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What 5 things do you LOVE about football?

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Ok, we've had the negative ones, now for a positive one.

What 5 things do you love most about football?

1) Stepping out into a jam packed Hillsborough.

2) Derby days. Not just steel city derbies. Watching Pompey v Scum on telly or Rangers v C**tic or AFC Wimbledon v MK Dons. There is an atmosphere surrounding derbies that can't be beaten.

3) When the cup throws up a surprise. A great draw or even when the underdog beats the team expected to breeze into the next round.

4) Stood in an away end not expecting a result, freezing cold, getting a final minute winner and going apeshit!

5) Female Sky Sports News presenters! Hayley McQueen, Olivia Godfrey, Natalie Sawyer, Rachel Wyse... So many to look at!

I still love football even when it's been drug into the mud and I could name another fifty reasons why, but here's just five. What five reasons do you love football for?

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1. The atmosphere of a full stadium, no matter what it is.

2. That excitement when you can just see the top of the stadium in a skyline on matchday.

3. Seeing a Wednesday goal pop up on the videprinter, calm as anything.

4. Bouncing

5. How mad you go when your team scores a screamer.

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1. The main thing, even if Wednesday are playing crap the oppurtunity for an afternon with friends to share a laugh.

2. The moments of joy making up for all the bad times. Moments like the Antonio winner against Cardiff, watching the United game against Stevenage in a Brentford pub etc.

3. Playing the game itself and putting on a good pass whether it be a quick one touch or a crossfield pass landing inch perfect at someone's foot for a footballer lover its the equivalent of an artist getting the right stroke of a paint brush.

4. Visiting a new away ground.

5. Wrapping up expertly well as I do now and anticipating a decent performance.

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1) A sold out Hillsborough

2) Walking down the road at 7am with a bag full of stella before an away day with all the anticipation ahead.

3) Pubs full of chanting at away days

4) Flying scotsman

5) AFC clubs eg Wimbledon, Chester, fc united

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theres not a lot i like about football in general ..........

5 things i love about wednesday is a different matter

any away win especially in london

the feeling of standing as one with 25000 others

walking down tailtone road and seeing the ground still does it for me even after 50 years of doing it .

our history .....we have a history thats up there with the best of them and how do we celebrate it at the ground we have an chris turner legend wall.......

being able to get a beres jumbo pork with everything on from just outside the ground ,the team may be crap but i can always bank on that being good .

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1) When you look at the route to goal and call it bang on and the players do exactly what you think they should, exactly in time to your thoughts and score! As if you were pulling off a Jedi mind trick.

2) When you look at the route to goal and get every call wrong and the players all do something far better than you'd thought of and they score a goal far more wonderful than the one you planned out. I love this one - having my expectations surpassed!

3) A proper full on screamer with a proper full on celebration - Marco Tardelli style.

4) Being part of something bigger than myself when lost in the crowd on match day WAWAW!

5) Anything beautiful - anything, a goal, a trick, a turn, a pass, a tackle(?) anything - it's supposed to be the beautiful game and that gets forgotten a bit too often IMO.

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1) When you look at the route to goal and call it bang on and the players do exactly what you think they should, exactly in time to your thoughts and score! As if you were pulling off a Jedi mind trick.

2) When you look at the route to goal and get every call wrong and the players all do something far better than you'd thought of and they score a goal far more wonderful than the one you planned out. I love this one - having my expectations surpassed!

3) A proper full on screamer with a proper full on celebration - Marco Tardelli style.

4) Being part of something bigger than myself when lost in the crowd on match day WAWAW!

5) Anything beautiful - anything, a goal, a trick, a turn, a pass, a tackle(?) anything - it's supposed to be the beautiful game and that gets forgotten a bit too often IMO.

this^^^^ and playing the game myself, when im confident and playing well there is just no better feeling. except scoring hat-tricks/4-tricks(?) or last minute winners... beautiful.

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this^^^^ and playing the game myself, when im confident and playing well there is just no better feeling. except scoring hat-tricks/4-tricks(?) or last minute winners... beautiful.

I agree. Playing is still one of the best things ever. It can also be one of the most depressing though.

As a keeper I'd makesure that I was available to play EVERY sunday. I'd go away on a weekend, but have to get up at 0500 on Sunday morning to drive to my mrs' mum's place, drop her off, then drive to the ground we were playing at by 1000. It's so gutting when you're on the final roundabout to the ground and your phones goes because the match has been postponed due to waterlogged pitch/frozwn pitch.

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1. The main thing, even if Wednesday are playing crap the oppurtunity for an afternon with friends to share a laugh.

2. The moments of joy making up for all the bad times. Moments like the Antonio winner against Cardiff, watching the United game against Stevenage in a Brentford pub etc.

3. Playing the game itself and putting on a good pass whether it be a quick one touch or a crossfield pass landing inch perfect at someone's foot for a footballer lover its the equivalent of an artist getting the right stroke of a paint brush.

4. Visiting a new away ground.

5. Wrapping up expertly well as I do now and anticipating a decent performance.

Think I meant Chester there thanks for pointing it out guys

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I think you meant Carlise - but hey, what the heck - if it was a winner then it's sweet whoever it's against :biggrin: :biggrin:

1. Being a Wednesdayite

2. Being taken to Hillsborough for my first game rather than the sty

3. Being old enough to remember and relish some of the good times

4. Being there on matchdays (not as often as I would like these days - so it's even more special)

5. Being such an optimistic glutton for punishment (a touch perverse perhaps!!)

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