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Do you, though? It's not healthy to follow it too intensely IMO. Especially as you get older and get more responsibilities, there are more important things in life.
I don't know if you remember one person who used to post on here. I used to sit near him in the North Bank and he got married in that era.
He used to pride himself on being the bestest, westest Arsenal fan. I used to find it all a bit silly really.
I head he got divorced and I remember thinking "well maybe if you'd spent more time trying to be a good husband rather than a good Arsenal fan..."
Maybe that's a bit harsh, but his priorities seemed all wrong.

I think just generally you become more relaxed and less intense as you get older, I certainly care a lot less about it all than I did.
I've actually been watching more games recently, maybe because of lockdown and so on, there's not loads else to do. But overall I'm nowhere near as in to it all as I was. I have no idea when our next game is, I generally find out about games from this place!

So, in brief, I definitely care less about it all than I did but I don't think that's a bad thing. I think it's pretty healthy.
I can relate to that, unfortunatly

Arsenal didn't help my first marriage at all. My Weekend would be dominated by if they won or lost. If they lost, I would sulk badly and cancel evenings out

Now that I am 54 with two grown up children, I tend not to get so down about it because my second wife will not put up with it

It still hurts inside when they lose, however, I just tell myself that they are a bunch of overpaid w***k**s who literally could not give a stuff about me.

One thing though, I still absolutely love it when S*urs lose. Sometimes it gives me more of a lift than when Arsenal win!