Very rarely watch a Premier league game it's plastic and boring. Tonight my son popped over and put the Sheff U v Arsenal game on. Arsenal totally dominant ( surprise surprise ) it's 0-5 half time. What I did notice was at 0-4 ( 30 mins ) Arsenal got a corner and two or three Utd fans ran down the stands shouting and pointing out to the referee the ball was slightly out of the D Thousands left the game at 0-3 ( 15 mins ) although I would wait at least until half time when getting slaughtered I can understand that. But to go crazy over a inch or so of a ball position when 0-4 down tells me Football is definitely a mental health issue.

No doubt about it. My wife thinks I'm mad being a Pools fan despite all the misery and disappointment it brings.

I was measured for my straight jacket years ago, but eventually learnt to gnaw through the leather restraining straps pre match and still get there.

On a more serious note I was listening to talk sport while working outside and fans were phoning in battering the ref because he had not given their team a corner costing them a goal……when pointed out that a corner doesn’t give you a goal they insisted that with their run of form (Liverpool), a goal from a corner was a certainty.
Now that’s arrogance and mental health combined.

well pools and others look more threatening if they have a goal kick rather than a corner. the stats for goals scored from corners do not give reasons for fans to get excited when their team gets one. well that does notinclude visiting ones to the vic though. has anyone got the stats of the number of goals we have conceeded from a corner before we clear it properly or free kicks from wide positions. then it might help if fans know the law of where a ball can be placed for a corner and refs also read the one where a throw in has to be taken from. can still hear the moans now after 2 years of retirement when i enforced that law to the letter.

I think football does effect mental health. If you win on a weekend your mood lifts, lose and you feel that the weekend's been ruined.

As a Darlo fan - we've been in the relegation zone all this season but three wins in a row have reawakened the possibility that we might escape the drop, so now the tension has risen!

I question myself sometimes as to the amount of time I spend thinking about football.

its just part of life,s up and downs where once you took em in your stride and knowing there is bound to be something good to happen when everything seems against you. people now just cannot cope with anything going wrong and for many it started with not understanding or hearing the word no.

Watched Undr the Cosh series on YouTube, last one was Jason Mcteer,he openly admitted he contemplated suicide after Ronnie Moore let him go from Tranmere. After months of counselling he pulled himself round, he was lucky his mental health issues were identified and sorted others aren’t so lucky.

Was reading an article about autism yesterday that underlines what you say. Autism is a real condition - our lass works with severely autistic youngsters aged 18-21. But the boundaries of the diagnosis keep expanding outward to take in people less far along the spectrum. Not so long ago it was estimated that 1 in 750 people in the UK were autistic - now it’s 1 in 35 and coming down all the time!

Apparently, loads of older people have been living with some degree of autism all their lives - well if that’s true and they’re doing ok, will it do any good to find out now

It has been proven that everyone is on the spectrum in some ways shape or form.

Go to work a lot happier when we on a good run for sure.
Not looking forward to tonite nite shift.
You got to be a bit mental to be a Poolie.
All in the support /job description I suppose.
UTP.

I’m well past that stage,

doubt there is a single human being who has not one issue or another. its just for me more is made of them. those like me who once were called someone with a bad temper if crossed now have anger management issues. we just have a short fuse and do not take kindly to those we think are fools. for me i cannot see anything wrong with this as it would be a boring world if we were all middle of the road with grey personalities without opinions on a single thing. mind you i think our leaders would love this to happen.