Yay! It's the World Cup!

[mitchy]

Football every day for a month, *sighs contentedly* Well ok, not quite every day at the later stages but for the first couple of weeks it's a football fan's paradise. The chance to see different countries and different players all (theoretically) at the top of their game, a show case for the sport.

Which, presumably, is why England really stunk this afternoon - which, to be fair, is par for the course, as we never start these tournaments well. At least this time we stunk but still managed to win. Unlike poor old Sweden, who couldn't manage to beat a 10 man Trinidad and Tobago, a team from an archipelagic state so small, it fits into Sweden about 82 times. (That isn't an exaggeration, btw, I actually checked this out). So overall, I'm not going to wail too much but damn, we'd better play a hellava lot better that that the next time I watch :P

Course, now all the grumbling is starting. "There's nothing but football! Whine Whine!" To which I reply "There there, it only happens once every four years and so let us footie fans have our summer of fun". Course, when it's wall to wall sports (cricket, Wimbledon and the World Cup, non-sports fans will have my total sympathy, even though I like watching two out of three of those. The sooner we move to a digital TV country so that the sports can be relegated from the main channels to specialist channels, the better. Then the BBC and ITV and others can pacify the non-sports people with their usual crap programming. :)

In the meantime - YAY!! FOOTBALL!! *does the happy Mitchy boogie*

Hmm, I need a World Cup icon......

Comments

[itsjustaname.livejournal.com]

No way? Sweden lost to T&T?? *chortle*

I can't abide football but I can get into any sport played at the international level and although I really would like the World Cup to go away and stop bothering me, I also would rather like England to do well.

The problem of the World Cup for non-footie fans is that it gets everywhere. You can't move for football related adverts, news items, weather reports, tv shows and that's not including the actual coverage. My work has a special HR policy to cover time off to watch the World Cup, you don't get that for the cricket or the Olympics.

[adelpha.livejournal.com]

As a non-footie fan, I'm not too fussed about the endless TV coverage, 'cos it's easy enough to avoid. You change the channel or go get a drink during the trailers/adverts.

Even on LJ, I don't mind. If it's a short post about beating , no problem. If it's a 15 page epic writeup on a game, I'll skip over it.

What bugs me is the endless talk about it at work, and being made to feel like come kind of freak because I don't like the sport. Never have, probably never will. So for the next month, I'll be plugged into my walkman in a (probably) vain attempt to drown them out.

[adelpha.livejournal.com]

Er, [x] beating [y]. I keep forgetting pointy brackets do bad things in comments.

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

I tease people for not liking football but I can understand it must get very wearing to be insulted for not liking it. There's no call for that. Even I got fed up of the football talk in the office on Friday - some of my colleagues have got some kind of accumulator bet going on and there was a post-mortem discussion of the choices for at least an hour.....*gnnnngg*

I know for a fact they've lost two of their bets already - first player to score in the England game and the match score :D Hehehehehe.

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

No way? Sweden lost to T&T?? *chortle*

*grins* no, they didn't lose, they drew 0-0. But as I say, given that T&T spent half the match with 10 men, I can only imagine what the Swedish press are saying about their team today. I've seen some great comments on LJ already :)

My work has a special HR policy to cover time off to watch the World Cup

They do? Now I think that's several different kinds of fantabulous :) Do they need an admin ninja at all? *hopeful*