Psychotherapy

[Gtleighsr3]

Its not for me anymore

[Robsondinho]

Family is all QPR so no choice. Dad dragged me to my first game in 88/89 was 4ish. Early 90's I couldnt get enough of QPR. Started playing youth football myself around age 8 always went to training in my ferdinand shirt. Went onto play youth level for charlton at the accamedy, so playing started to take more importance then watching. Released by charlton and started to fall out of love with the game, and stopped playing and watching QPR say about 2002. Got playing again and got the buz back for football in 2004 I think, playing good level and love football & qpr (not current players or gaffa) again.

[W4 R]

Very interesting.
It is about having something to worship. Across the world there are different religions, sects, organisations. Over the years QPR have been like a higher power to me. I have obsessed about my team, and have also landed in trouble when things were not going well. I have paid the price, but a lot of that was because alcohol and myself do not mix. This must sound like I am going off track here, but it all ties in for me.
This is not a sob story either, but as a kid, I had no family life and witnessed a lot of drunken violence in my family. When i first saw the R's back in around 76-77, I felt I had come home. As I grew up and started going to the away games in my glue covered sheepskin jacket, the buzz I got from going Leeds away on the train with the older chaps. I remember being told, "you're a good lad but tidy yourself up". That's when I changed from being a skinhead to a casual. I wanted to fit in, be part of something, that was QPR.
Coming to the matches and being with all the lads, was what I was missing in my home life, or lack of it. I had loads of anger and sadness in me, and football was where I could be someone and the excitement of winning and especially celebrating a goal away from home.
I'm older now and wiser, so I have to say to myself is football the be all and end all? All the heartache and false hopes. It's only a game but the game can become more than a game. Watching QPR or any team for that matter can be a form of insanity, coming week in and week out expecting different results. So when the pinnacle is achieved and the R's win the prem and Champions league, what next? A Chelsea fan at work explained to me that even when they win 4-0 it is a case of "oh well, job done". Where's the excitement in that? To be honest by keeping expectations in reality, there is no setting oneself up for dissapointment. I really don't want to drive myself mad anymore, but I'm addicted to the team i love.... Queens Park Rangers

[Robsondinho]

Very interesting.
It is about having something to worship. Across the world there are different religions, sects, organisations. Over the years QPR have been like a higher power to me. I have obsessed about my team, and have also landed in trouble when things were not going well. I have paid the price, but a lot of that was because alcohol and myself do not mix. This must sound like I am going off track here, but it all ties in for me.
This is not a sob story either, but as a kid, I had no family life and witnessed a lot of drunken violence in my family. When i first saw the R's back in around 76-77, I felt I had come home. As I grew up and started going to the away games in my glue covered sheepskin jacket, the buzz I got from going Leeds away on the train with the older chaps. I remember being told, "you're a good lad but tidy yourself up". That's when I changed from being a skinhead to a casual. I wanted to fit in, be part of something, that was QPR.
Coming to the matches and being with all the lads, was what I was missing in my home life, or lack of it. I had loads of anger and sadness in me, and football was where I could be someone and the excitement of winning and especially celebrating a goal away from home.
I'm older now and wiser, so I have to say to myself is football the be all and end all? All the heartache and false hopes. It's only a game but the game can become more than a game. Watching QPR or any team for that matter can be a form of insanity, coming week in and week out expecting different results. So when the pinnacle is achieved and the R's win the prem and Champions league, what next? A Chelsea fan at work explained to me that even when they win 4-0 it is a case of "oh well, job done". Where's the excitement in that? To be honest by keeping expectations in reality, there is no setting oneself up for dissapointment. I really don't want to drive myself mad anymore, but I'm addicted to the team i love.... Queens Park Rangers

Good story

[W4 R]

Thanks Robsondinho, best of luck for your playing career fella

[Gtleighsr3]

Good story

FFS chunks,the bloke is good enough to open himself up to us and ell us about his probs with and around alcohol.And what do you do,you give him a beer sign.

[W4 R]

FFS chunks,the bloke is good enough to open himself up to us and ell us about his probs with and around alcohol.And what do you do,you give him a beer sign.

That is funny no offence taken tho

[Robsondinho]

FFS chunks,the bloke is good enough to open himself up to us and ell us about his probs with and around alcohol.And what do you do,you give him a beer sign.

That is funny no offence taken tho

I always thought it was a glass of orangeade with whipped cream ontop

[W6hoops]

For me, Rangers is part of my identity. I feel about Rangers as i do my Family. Plus growing up by Latimer Road station in the 1970s, QPR was the Only Team to support from that area. It was unheard of that any other kids supported other teams.