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In football it is strong, hard to contain, it will send you into a state of frenzy and the outburst of emotion that follows oozes pure passion.
For one moment forget attendance rates, viewing numbers, membership tallies and TV deals.
All of these although important aspects in ensuring the ball continues rolling, are not at the heart of it all.
The supporters are the life and blood, sweat and tears that have contributed their part in making football in Australia what it is today.
For those that have preference of comfortably sitting at home, grabbing the remote, changing the channel to Fox Sports, perhaps when you find a second, when the Christmas shopping is done, bills are paid, and you find $20 in your back pocket, consider this..
Consider making your way to AAMI Park, Allianz, Bluetongue, Hindmarsh, Hunter, NIB, Suncorp or The Cake Tin. Join the passion that ever so beautifully comes out of the hearts of A-League supporters.
Written recently in the Daily Telegraph was an article titled ‘Derbies not what they used to be’.
‘Derbies not what they used to be’? What was also apparent in this article was the lack of emotion or ‘passion,’ the only thing that came close luckily, was a comment made by Tony Popovic:
“Our fans embraced it so quickly. The noise and the atmosphere among those sets of fans. Both sets of fans really felt a special part of the club.”
After seven to eight months of A-League history, Popovic could already see it, Western Sydney could already see it and so could everyone else.
Whether you are a part of the Red and Black Block, The Cove, The Den, The Blue and White Brigade and so on, or a supporter sitting somewhere else in the stands, it is the numbers in attendance which create the support and passion that drives our teams to greater heights.
Passion in our sport is continually blossoming and being encouraged albeit with some fair restrictions such as banning of flairs and prevention of riots – not that we have had to bear witness to such extremities of violence that is caused in other footballing nations.
It is when the spectacle of a Melbourne and Sydney derby roll into town that the hairs on the back of your neck stands up and you listen.
The Classic rivalries between Adelaide United and the Victory. F3 derbies and grand final rematches.
Grudge matches in which a mere melee entices the flag bearers of other footballing codes to denigrate our wonderful sport for what can be described merely as child’s play.
Football in Australia is the sleeping giant, with a gut full of passion so enormous even the unearthed supporters are waiting for their derby or match which gives them the feeling we feel.
Every now and then it is the small things in life that are of most importance, and whether the world will end on the 21st December 2012 or a few billion years from now, no matter what has happened before or what lay ahead in the future, Australian football is here to stay, and never will the passion die.
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