Funny how people can go from going to all games and football being the centre of their life to just keeping an eye out for results. Not being judgemental, just seems odd. I can see how people go to less games as they get older, have kids, etc but would think not that many would lose interest to the just keeping an eye on results extent.
I guess the answer may be that the football aspect was not the thing that Dougal was obsessed with.