Congratulations. It's 2026 and being a football fan is a ******

Sit is increasingly difficult, not only in Portugal, but also in Portugal. We have heard, over and over again, who is entitled to ensure that we, the passionate ones, make the engine of this modality work, but it is also us, who are on the bottom of the food chain, who are most badly treated by these same people.

Being a football fan is wanting to go to the stadium and not being able, because the cost is totally alienated from the Portuguese reality. It is necessary to choose between spending hours in a queue to the ticket office, waking up early to make endless ‘refreshes’ on a decrepit website to get a nesga of opportunity to buy a ticket or give in and pay porn on the parallel market.

To be a football fan is to want to start a child in love with the ball, but not to succeed, or because the return home will be already at dawn and the next day there will be school, or because it will be bombarded by impromptu for more than two hours or because it will not even be able to enter the stadium with a miserable scarf of the heart club.

Being a football fan is having to pay close to 50 euros a month to ensure that you do not miss a single game, often in a ‘premium’ service that ‘premium’ only has the price. It is to know that the alternative is to resort to piracy or, eventually, to hope that one of them passes in the open, accompanied by the lowest of the sports commentary.

Being a football fan is having to choose between paying almost 100 euros (at best) for a favorite club nightgown or swallowing the principles and paying a tenth of that amount, in the candonga, for an equipment that was most likely manufactured by a child in a third-world country who came home with pennies in hand.

Being a football fan is not being able to vibrate with victories, because this or the one will always come up saying that if it weren't for the referee, the lawn or bad weather, the story would be different. It is not being able to learn from defeats, because the highest responsible do not know how to take on their own mistakes and always find the most idiotic excuses to cling to their respective positions.

To be a football fan is not to be able to enjoy a World Cup for the pleasure that a World Cup gives, because it is organized by one of the most corrupt organizations on the planet, who only cares about sucking money out of every possible hole and keeping at the top of the hierarchy anyone who is able to ensure that nothing changes.

Being a football fan is not having the freedom to say bluntly that Cristiano Ronaldo is the best player in the world without the emergence of fanatics, bots and the like to present arguments that have nothing to do with football. It's not being able to say Lionel Messi is even better without someone tearing his clothes under the most goofy patriotism.

Being a football fan is being a hypocrite. It's complaining about all this, and even so, for carolice or whatever, counting coins to go to the ball, taking the sleeping son home after the final whistle, gathering a crowd in a T1 to see the derby and scouring the balances for an official sweater five years ago.

Being a football fan is screaming for victory and mocking the neighbor, and vibrating the games of World Portugal. It is to go to heaven when Cristiano Ronaldo scores that decisive goal, after spending hours defending that he should not even be summoned, at the same time as he marvels at what Lionel Messi does while researching conspiracy theories to lower him.

Being a football fan is a ******. Being a football fan is a bitch. They know, and they take advantage.