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Wives and football?
CharltonManor1966
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So..….I need some urgent advice please my fellow Lifers......
I took my wife to her first ever Charlton match against Leicester. She is not a footy fan but she humours me!
Anyway - much to my surprise she kind of enjoyed the whole experience (I got nice seats with the prawn sandwich brigade in the upper West). She had made a few general positive comments early on "GO ON KICK IT" was one to be remembered.
My real problem started about half way through the second half - not much was going on - a bit of goalkeeper time out -
So my dear wife says in a loud voice "SO WHAT COLOUR ARE WE"?
the reaction from those around me 8was hysterical! I hid my head in shame and apologised to all around.
Anyway Lifers - she told me last night that she really enjoyed it and wants to go on Saturday against Swansea….
Help? Should I or not??????????
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With those powers of observation she could become a referee11
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You are f*cked now mate, what you have done is opened Pandora's Box and there ain't no going back.CharltonManor1966 said:So..….I need some urgent advice please my fellow Lifers......
I took my wife to her first ever Charlton match against Leicester. She is not a footy fan but she humours me!
Anyway - much to my surprise she kind of enjoyed the whole experience (I got nice seats with the prawn sandwich brigade in the upper West). She had made a few general positive comments early on "GO ON KICK IT" was one to be remembered.
My real problem started about half way through the second half - not much was going on - a bit of goalkeeper time out -
So my dear wife says in a loud voice "SO WHAT COLOUR ARE WE"?
the reaction from those around me 8was hysterical! I hid my head in shame and apologised to all around.
Anyway Lifers - she told me last night that she really enjoyed it and wants to go on Saturday against Swansea….
Help? Should I or not??????????
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I would, but maybe in the less expensive seats so you can see whether it's the football or the hospitality she's enjoying, and because if she gets a taste for it it's going to get expensive quite quickly. Maybe over in the East, so similar view of the pitch but from the other side, with a trip to the Fans Bar beforehand?7
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Since it was the only home game in 2025 we lost, then please no.19
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Mrs Baldys first visit. 10 minutes into the game "when does it start".
Otherwise on the occasional visit she enjoys people watching, particularly the Covered end concourse at half time. She says it's like day release from Belmarsh.24 -
I recommend not.
2 of my mates are coming with me to Coventry away. We originally invited our wives/girlfriends but have since got together and decided to exclude them for the sake of having a nice day.8 -
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Take her in the Covered End Upper, right next to the drummer, that will test her resolve mate, if she starts singing VFR, your stuffed...😉2
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Why on Earth wouldn't you?5
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My wife didn’t watch football at until until about 18 months ago when I took her with me to the valley now I can’t get to a game without her. It’s great in most ways but tbh I do miss that me time that Charlton once was lol1
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Mentioned on here before but I met my wife on an away coach to Bolton early 90s. In my younger years I thought it would be great having a partner that shared your hobby and football club passion.
Turned out it is. I really could not imagine a relationship with someone who wasn’t into football and Charlton. Only downside was when our kids were younger and we had to take turns going games. I’m still smarting I got the Preston away draw in SCP’s 2011/12 promotion season and she got Kermorgant’s volley and the trophy celebrations against Hartlepool :-(
Embrace it
(she can stay well away from golf though!)19 -
I couldn't go to the Watford game, and amazingly, my wife asked if she could use my s/t. She enjoyed it, and has been to most of the weekend games since. She's coming tomorrow, but not to the Tuesday night home games (past her bedtime!). She also asks a few stupid questions every now and then, and has asked me to explain football too her (like why does a team get a corner and why do goalies faff around with goal kicks...), but I don't know where to start... One of her favourite queries is "why didn't he just kick it?"2
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hermann said:
Literally just spat my drink out on the train LOL'ing at this comment1 -
Mmm, this'll end tears IMO, assuming you have a regular possy you go with possibly taking liquid refreshments, things might not be quite the same.0
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There's no way I could ever take my wife football.
She'd hate it and she'd certainly see me in a totally different light.
It's for the best that they don't meet and exist in two very different worlds.
However, it has to work to your advantage if they actually like football and maybe like the club you support too. Then you'd avoid situations like when the wife says she needs to 'pop to Bluewater' Saturday morning and you reluctantly agree to go, as long as you're home by the 3pm kick off... and then you end up getting home at 6pm, having not only gone to Bluewater but dragged round f'ing Ikea at Lakeside and you totally miss the game (see Brighton v Spurs last month for exhibit A)...along with many other friend/family get togethers where they just don't consider the fixture list, despite me without fail adding every single game to the shared family calendar, especially the games I'm actually planning on going to.
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The balls gone offside!5
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I think the first step could be to take your ‘significant other’ and a football to the park for a kick about.
Start with the visceral.1 -
So, there are those that don’t take their wives and basically say they think it’s not a good idea; and there those whose wives do go, support Charlton and probably read/post on this site as well and say it is a good idea (and obviously not because they’ve been told to say that 😂).
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That's the way to be in my opinion, embrace it and explain the game if they don't know.Pedro45 said:I couldn't go to the Watford game, and amazingly, my wife asked if she could use my s/t. She enjoyed it, and has been to most of the weekend games since. She's coming tomorrow, but not to the Tuesday night home games (past her bedtime!). She also asks a few stupid questions every now and then, and has asked me to explain football too her (like why does a team get a corner and why do goalies faff around with goal kicks...), but I don't know where to start... One of her favourite queries is "why didn't he just kick it?"
Amazed how many people bring along a partner who has no idea of the game, and is then surprised when 'stupid' questions are asked.1 -
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Been with my missus for 8 years. She's not particularly fussed but knows how much it means to me, and she spends most Saturdays with her mum which works out well. 9 games over that time she's been to and not seen us lose, including both the Wembley trips, wonder if she'll be doing it again this year....0
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Thankfully not a problem I had to overcome. The first game I ever took my missus to was the infamous FA cup match at Ashton Gate, after walking into mass punch ups, bricks raining down and finding our brand new beemer with every panel kicked in (I left my Charlton sticker in the back window), she left me in no doubt she would never, ever come to another football match. Phew!13
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Does she ask why our keeper usually fakes an injury at around 85 minutes?Pedro45 said:I couldn't go to the Watford game, and amazingly, my wife asked if she could use my s/t. She enjoyed it, and has been to most of the weekend games since. She's coming tomorrow, but not to the Tuesday night home games (past her bedtime!). She also asks a few stupid questions every now and then, and has asked me to explain football too her (like why does a team get a corner and why do goalies faff around with goal kicks...), but I don't know where to start... One of her favourite queries is "why didn't he just kick it?"
So our team can have a rest/disrupt any momentum the opposition might have?1 -
Went with my girlfriend last season, she'd never been, I said that Thierry Small probably wont be with us for much longer, she says, 'he's not dying is he?'37
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Glad I don't have to think about bringing my wife tbh. It was bad enough having to bring my husband 🙄
But moving to a goat farm in Ireland sorted that. He has to stay behind to goat sit.
Ave it 🍻 😎😊10 -
Thankfully Mrs M likes football (I wouldn't go as far as love) - no choice really with me and two Charlton mad sons. She has been to a few games at The Valley and also the play-off final in 2019 and she has almost got the offside law - very similar in fact to most referees and assistants!Like @AFKABartram said, I couldn't imagine being with a life partner who didn't at least like football and Charlton (especially as she comes from a Millwall family).Take her @CharltonManor1966 - if she gets the bug then great, if she doesn't then no harm done.6
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I would encourage your wife’s attendance.
I am blessed with a wife who loves sport. Her first love is Welsh rugby and has debenture seats at The Principality stadium, but for obvious reasons that has soured over the last couple of years! I even converted her to watching whole sessions of test match cricket on the TV during the last Ashes and we usually go to at least one test match or ODI each year. She also loves watching the Ryder Cup and we have been to the Ryder Cups at the Celtic Manor and Gleneagles in days gone by. She was a season ticket holder at The Valley for a number of years and whilst we don’t get to games now we are living in the Cotswolds, she watches every game on Charlton TV with me. Naturally she cannot resist pointing out that it took a Welshman to start Charlton’s current renaissance!10 -
Never in a million years. It’s my time to blow off steam be with my mates and pretend I’m free for a few hours.
we’ve been together 32 years and she’s never been and never would.4 -
I thank you for sharing this - maybe I should have explained the warm up to her before we went into the stand?Baldybonce said:Mrs Baldys first visit. 10 minutes into the game "when does it start".
Otherwise on the occasional visit she enjoys people watching, particularly the Covered end concourse at half time. She says it's like day release from Belmarsh.
She thought there was lots of running around and goals being scored but no-one was cheering!
I also appreciate the comment about sitting her next to the drummer in the Covered End - maybe I could turn her hearing aid up full and write a list of swear words for her to learn for her homework before going?
As yet am undecided - I might tell her that the pitch is frozen or NJ's wife wants him to go to Tesco's so the match is cancelled.........0 -
Brilliant! I used to see Ray bopping round Wood Green all the time. Always made me smile when I saw him. Havent seen him for ages though. Maybe hes earnt enough money to get out of there!Stig said:1
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