Well now it’s official…men can be faithful too. Read a piece of research in yesterday’s newspaper about men and their football teams. It seems that 94% of 2000 men surveyed say they would never abandon their team no matter how dire they played, but 52% of those same men say they would walk from a relationship that hit the rocks. Now I don’t want to condone that, or at least my wife wouldn’t want me to condone it, but this team loyalty thing is something women struggle to understand.
Just tonight, as I cheered a brilliant Arsenal performance against Juve, my wife said I would be better off supporting them than Leeds, the team I’ve supported since I was six, when someone told me they were better than Crystal Palace who I’d supported for about 10 mins (so that doesn’t count). Anyway I was only six. Didn’t know any better. (Crystal Palace for goodness sake!)
Anyway, the psychologist who conducted the research was quoted as saying “In an age where jobs and relationships come and go, loyalty is now reserved for something men feel they can believe in – football.”
BTW, 30% of the men said football had been instrumental in helping them bond with other men. 40% of them also said they had spilled tears of joy and despair, and 25% said they would miss a family funeral to watch a match.
Makes you proud doesn’t it?
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