Football is not for everyone.
There is no deeper chasm between the zeros and downs that this game takes out of you.
One of the first and most important lessons you learn as a fan is to rejoice in an extreme and disproportionate way when things are good, because you never know how long it will last.
It's like a muscle that develops.
After last week's victory, I stopped myself from calling generic customer services and pressing 6 "for any topic" to ask the operator if they had ever seen an exciting team like Maccabi, and now I want to disappear for two days.
It was a rocking week.
The euphoria from the first game against Nice lasted until midnight. On the first morning, I was already debating with myself whether Maccabi was wise when it chose to hold the game against Bnei Rayna or if we fell into the trap of self-righteousness. A half against Rayna was enough for Maccabi to solve the global chip crisis. What fun It was, give me only games like this. It's like life insurance. The rest of the week was characterized by moving away from the media and social networks under clear circumstances (you won't find encouraging words here).
I came to last night's game against Nice with a double concern.
It's not just the differences in strength between the teams, the fact that the Predator (No. 19 of the French) is playing for them and the landslides of the past that Ivic carries with him from the playoff rematches.
We have to say honestly that Haifa's qualification for the Champions was also behind us, suddenly it felt like there was no choice - we had to qualify for the group stage in Europe.
I suddenly forgot that we were playing against Nice at all.
The one with the dreadlocks.
Beka Beka celebrates Nice's winning goal, photo: AFP
But now we are in a completely different place.
It's not just the end of the road in Europe, it's also dealing with rival fans with the well-worn jokes like "character isn't bought at the grocery store", the colleagues at work who suddenly become football experts, and even the family that wears you out with slogans like "proportions, don't let it affect you" or annoying questions As if I am the spokesperson for the club "What will happen to your team?".
Last season I didn't sleep for three days in a row because of the 3:1 league opening loss to Bnei Sakhnin, who exactly do you think you are putting proportions into.
If at the start of the first game in the match Nice defeated Maccabi in the first half, last night at the beginning of the game the Nice players looked like fishermen who went fishing in the Dead Sea.
Our dreaminess helped them score an upset goal and since then they felt at ease.
In the second half it already looked a little better for him, and still, I felt that we were playing against them with ladders and snakes and every time it was our turn we fell on a snake.
what a frustration
Glazer watches over Ramsay.
Yellow sense of loss, photo: E.P
The truth is, as someone who graduated with honors from the football science course, I felt like we were going home.
During the game I went through all the stages of the Kübler-Ross model, from the anger to the acceptance of the headlines in the newspapers "Maccabi has separated from Europe, the squad will be thinned" or the wordplay headlines (crying emoji) "Nice didn't happen to Nice(s)".
Time didn't help either and every minute of the game felt like a week and a half.
It was like watching the sinking Titanic twice in a row when you're one of the coal workers.
In the last half hour to the end of the 90 minutes it felt as if they had 11,200 corners and all of them were in scoring position, their range was as if they were Golden State from 3.
The red for the Nice player in overtime gave me a rather false impression that it might happen, but then a crazy kick by the one with the dreadlocks who replaced the one with the dreadlocks and received a good ball from the third one with the dreadlocks, and from then on it seemed as if the Maccabi players were thinking of converting a profession to high-tech.
sucks
If he had arrived in football, then another European factory would have opened yesterday to which they are relegated straight from the conference league playoffs.
It's hard for me to explain, but it's moments like these that I connect with my team the most.
Let's go to the league.
were we wrong
We will fix it!
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