Enligt en artikel i skotska Daily Herald påstås det att det kan vara bra för den mentala hälsan att supporta ett lag, i detta fall i fotboll, men det borde väl fungera lika bra med exempelvis att supporta ett hockeylag.
"Mr Pringle said: "When you start looking at mental illness, you find people have no sense of belonging, they feel rejected and cut off. When you read suicide notes, you find time and time again people say they do not feel connected, they do not feel part of anything." Supporting a football team seems to help guard against these problems and it also provides a cathartic release of tension, according to Mr Pringle. With this background, the score is almost irrelevant, according to the lecturer. Bert Moorhouse, director of the research unit into football studies at Glasgow University, agreed football was one of the few places where there was still a sense of community. However, he said the theory the result did not matter may only apply when fans had fairly low expectations. He said: "It does not work so well for mental wellbeing if you support clubs that you reasonably expect to do well but who for one reason or another are not doing so well."
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Enligt en artikel i skotska Daily Herald påstås det att det kan vara bra för den mentala hälsan att supporta ett lag, i detta fall i fotboll, men det borde väl fungera lika bra med exempelvis att supporta ett hockeylag.
"Mr Pringle said: "When you start looking at mental illness, you find people have no sense of belonging, they feel rejected and cut off. When you read suicide notes, you find time and time again people say they do not feel connected, they do not feel part of anything."
Supporting a football team seems to help guard against these problems and it also provides a cathartic release of tension, according to Mr Pringle.
With this background, the score is almost irrelevant, according to the lecturer.
Bert Moorhouse, director of the research unit into football studies at Glasgow University, agreed football was one of the few places where there was still a sense of community.
However, he said the theory the result did not matter may only apply when fans had fairly low expectations. He said: "It does not work so well for mental wellbeing if you support clubs that you reasonably expect to do well but who for one reason or another are not doing so well."