Get in. Our pals Bluffer’s have the home advantage and are kicking off with how to date a football fan. Back of the net!
Dating a football fan can be rather like dating a psychopath. Except with a much more colourful wardrobe. Well we may jest, but the football fans we know (male and female, too) take the ‘beautiful game’ very seriously and will expect you to do the same thing. Or leave them in peace while they do. So if you’ve got a fan for a date, you may be wondering…
What if they ask me to go to a match?
In a word… go! There are few more thrilling occasions than a live football match when it reaches fever pitch, and God knows it’s hard enough to find tickets these days. At Lovestruck, the dating gurus say that any passion of someone you like has to be worth getting to know, and we agree. Like them, like their ‘hobby’. Or at least give it a try.
What if I like a rival team?
Our main advice would be you’re ok as long as you don’t support their main rival. But then again, love has blossomed between Manchester United and Liverpool fans, and Arsenal and Spurs followers (just not very often). If someone takes their team so seriously that they couldn’t date a fan of a rival, then maybe they’re not the right one for you. But if you’re a dedicated fan of another team, then it’s time to see just where your loyalties lie…
I’m sorry but what if I can’t?
Then it’s time to get YOUR passion into THEIR lives. As Jackie, who is in a relationship with a Man U fan says: “I really, REALLY tried to get in to footie for about four years. I listened to facts about football semi-enthusiastically for another three, feigned interest for two; then decided the time had come to properly introduce snowboarding to Him Indoors. It made him eventually see how irrelevant footie actually was…”
Won’t it take over our lives?
Well, probably. Sorry about that. Best get a scarf (in the right colours, of course) and prepare to swap Saturday Kitchen for Saturday on the sidelines. And to potentially raise a mini football fan if you have kids, too. Like the opposite of Billy Elliot, we suppose.
DO SAY: “A post match pint? Don’t mind if I do…”
DON’T SAY: “That wasn’t offside! Can we turn over to EastEnders now?”
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