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09-22-2008, 07:59 AM
The answer is that losing football is bad for your health:
“Football does have positive effects on people’s psychological well-being. It gives people a ready-made topic of conversation where opinions on team selection, strategy, and players (http://soccerlens.com/tags/general/players/)’ skills are enjoyable topics for debate. Many people have made good friends and even met their spouses through football.”
But there is a down side to this whole football thing because some supporters apparently admit to becoming aggressive whilst watching a game (that’ll be the ref again), some even admit to the odd row with the wife after, and here’s the real shocker – heavy drinking is often a key element in that ‘good day out.’ So maybe losing isn’t such a great experience after all, because the news is that in a study of two major Scottish football teams (http://soccerlens.com/tags/teams/) (no prizes for guessing) it was found that after a few defeats too many, some of their supporters experienced anxiety, irritability, sleep problems and headaches – nothing to do with the alcohol at all apparently!http://soccerlens.com/is-football-bad-for-your-health/10540/
So I admit to being depressed. Any other fellow-sufferers?
“Football does have positive effects on people’s psychological well-being. It gives people a ready-made topic of conversation where opinions on team selection, strategy, and players (http://soccerlens.com/tags/general/players/)’ skills are enjoyable topics for debate. Many people have made good friends and even met their spouses through football.”
But there is a down side to this whole football thing because some supporters apparently admit to becoming aggressive whilst watching a game (that’ll be the ref again), some even admit to the odd row with the wife after, and here’s the real shocker – heavy drinking is often a key element in that ‘good day out.’ So maybe losing isn’t such a great experience after all, because the news is that in a study of two major Scottish football teams (http://soccerlens.com/tags/teams/) (no prizes for guessing) it was found that after a few defeats too many, some of their supporters experienced anxiety, irritability, sleep problems and headaches – nothing to do with the alcohol at all apparently!http://soccerlens.com/is-football-bad-for-your-health/10540/
So I admit to being depressed. Any other fellow-sufferers?