Ashok Gupta traces how football evolved from a 19th-century leisure game into a commercialized spectacle where fans form deep emotional attachments to teams. He connects this shift to broader themes of attachment and its role in recovery from ME/CFS.
But certainly that whole analogy, I'd like to remind us of that. It's so interesting that a game that was invented in the UK perhaps 200 years ago, where it's a group of guys getting together and for fun just kicking a ball around, that was always something which was a leisure activity. It was a bit of fun. It wasn't taken seriously. And the whole point was to enjoy the taking part. And what do we say to our children? You know, it's not about the winning, it's about taking part. Fast forward to the early, you know, the late 20th century, early 21st century. And it's this game which is still the same game but has now been transformed into something where a lot of money is in the game and a lot of attachment is there, where people really will their team to win. They really want their team to win. Sometimes supporting your football team has become a kind of.
