by Nia Griffiths

With the 2014/15 season now well and truly behind us, many will be finding the sudden lack of football depressing.

I know how it is. Your entire weekends – and often weeks – revolve around the next Arsenal fixture. No matter how awful your work week is, there’s always football on the horizon to make it a little more bearable.

Or to give you something else to complain about, at least.

We make new friends through football, get out of the house, escape reality and for some of us, even our jobs revolve around the sport.

During the season, this is usually a blessing; a great way of blowing off steam and socialising. However, when the season’s over, you find yourself at a bit of a loss.

I like to call this, the Post-Season Blues.

Are you wandering aimlessly around the Emirates at around three o’clock on a Saturday afternoon?

Do you find yourself randomly bursting into uncontrollably fits of ‘Que Sera Sera’?

Have your friends perhaps mentioned that, two weeks later, your yellow scarf has begun to whiff a bit and taken on a strange mustard tinge?

Then you, my friend, might well be suffering from the Post-Season Blues.

Don’t worry. Here are five ways you can get over your Post-Season Blues until the new season starts.

Watch more football

A simple solution in order for you not to go into football withdrawal is to watch more football. Feed that addiction.

In fact, the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2015 has just started in Canada. Whether you just want to tune in to see your favourite Arsenal ladies, or just because you love the sport, it’s well worth a watch.

At Daily Cannon, we’re also lucky enough to have our own correspondent, Sylvain Jamet, over in Canada at the moment reporting on the matches.

In addition, the Copa America 2015 tournament starts on June 11/12th, which we’ll also be covering on the site. The competition sees the likes of Alexis Sanchez’s Chile and David Ospina’s Colombia, along with ten other teams come together to compete for the trophy.

By the time the tournament has finished on July 4th, the Emirates Cup will be mere weeks away.

Find a new sport

Wimbledon, the US Open, the European Games, Tour de France – the summer is actually packed full of other sporting events. If you’re starved of competitive enthusiasm, find someone or something to support and just go for it.

Make banners for your living room, come up with chants, tear your shirt off if Andy Murray wins a set.

Your mates will think you’ve completely lost the plot but at least you’re having fun, eh?

Play football yourself

For those who just really need to see a ball being kicked or crave the sound of a shrill referee’s whistle, it might be nice to make up a little five-a-side team with your friends on a Sunday.

However, you may want to keep in mind that what’s said down the pub on a Saturday night, usually stays down the pub on a Saturday night and actually wrangling your hungover mates together to take part in some physical activity on a Sunday morning is a lot easier said than done.

I’d therefore recommend signing each and every one of them to legally binding contracts, just to make sure.

A football detox

Completely different from the above tips, this goes in the opposite direction.

A lot of people take football seriously. Very seriously. And sometimes this can take its toll. You become disillusioned with the sport, particularly if the season wasn’t successful – or at least you don’t deem it to be. You can begin to dread upcoming fixtures and look forward to the season’s end.

If this is the case, I’d recommend going on a bit of a football detox.

Spend time away from the sport with your friends and/or family. Go away on holiday, if you can. Maybe join the gym.

Find a really tall mountain top and sit on it, meditating. Chant mantras such as ‘we signed Mesut Ozil, Mesut Ozil’ and ‘Alexis Sanchez baby… Alexis Sanchez, ooooh’.

Envisage images of Mike Dean, screw up the imagine in your mind and lock him away. You don’t need that kind of negativity in your life right now.

Banish all thoughts of Cesc Fabregas once and for all.

After a month or two, your body and soul should be fully cleansed of all the pent-up stress that avidly supporting a football team can cause and ready to do it all again next season.

Go into hibernation

Just as bears do in the winter, my final piece of advice would be to go into a summer hibernation. You may suffer from a vitamin D deficiency as a result, but hey, you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do, right?

Take a week or two to prepare before building yourself a den out of pillows, blankets, newspapers, chairs, Arsenal shirts – anything you have around the house really.

Warn your friends, family and neighbours that you’ll still be alive and not to disturb you from your slumber.

Sleep until mid-July, and then re-emerge like a beautiful butterfly, ready for the new season.