That Monday feeling...

We dread going back to work. The rat race, the daily grind. We have to come down from spending our weekends with loved ones, friends and doing things we love. But there's one thing that football fans dread on the return to work...

Colleagues. The reminders of the weekend's scores. Your team lost 5-0 to your local rivals? This could be awaiting you at the first meeting.

We all do it. The poor sod walks into his computer covered in printouts of the score in font 80. Newspaper clippings.

But what happens when it all stops? Your beloved eleven men have taken beatings over such a prolonged period that even your workmates take sympathy. They even pity you. That's when you know it's bad.

But how do you recover? Pray the manager/players change? Or just stick two fingers up at them (perhaps in your mind, unless you work at Viz)... If someone ever finds the secret, they'll make millions.

So just stick it out, by Tuesday they'll forget all about it. Just hope that your team sneak through that home tie in the Carling Cup against the underdogs, or else it'll also be that Wednesday feeling.