Are you watching the World Cup?

[Dell19]

I see soccer games in half second increments. Thats how long it takes to continue changing the channels when I see a soccer game is on.

Haven't you already posted that you dislike football?

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Im just getting warmed up. How many times have you indicated that you like it?

 

[Dell19]

Zero I think in this thread since there is a poll. My involvement has been mainly commenting on other people's reactions.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Keep up the good work!

 

[Yeeek]

I like watching important soccer games like the Champions League or World Cup games but i don't watch any other games otherwise. What always get me is, there are lots of players who are real comedians on the field.

To be honest, i like watching any sports on TV, even Baseball with two teams i don't even know wich town or cities they are from. Now why soccer never really take off in North America, i have no idea. But it goes both way, only sports that i know of wich are played on both side of the pound are Hockey and Basketball. Why Baseball and -cough- Football never take off in Europe, i have no idea. I prefer watching or even playing Rugby than Football (american Football if you are following).

 

[Marla_Singer]

Im just getting warmed up. How many times have you indicated that you like it?

People who like football don't really have to say it... if they talk about footie games then one can assume they like it.

In a similar logic, people who dislike football generally don't really have to say it... as if they don't talk about footie games then one can assume they don't care about it.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Im particularly hostile to soccer at the moment because of all the hype. As soon as the World Cup is over I'll revert back to my usual mild disdain.

 

[Yeeek]

Of course there is hype. It couldn't be otherwise. That is what soccer is about. Think about some third world country dreaming about their national team beating USA. Now thats something. Just an example though.

 

[Simon Darkshade]

Im particularly hostile to soccer at the moment because of all the hype. As soon as the World Cup is over I'll revert back to my usual mild disdain.

Extremely close to my own position. So close that I suspect that you have been sneaking from my supply of laudinum. I shall send you a servant carrying a bill for 2 and 6, sir, and expect prompt recompense!

 

[Birdjaguar]

I read the first few paragrpahs of an article in today's paper about the "sweet 16" that are now left. I hope somebody wins the world cup; it would be a shame for all that effort to go for nothing.

I'm a little surprised that more of you soccer fans don't find the whole tournament thing a bit elitist. Why would you want to establish one group of members, oops, I mean players as better than another? Why can't the soccer community just play to have fun and not worry about whether or not one team actually plays better than the others? And then to go to all the trouble and expense of formalizing the process every four years only makes it more elitist. Sheesh.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Of course there is hype. It couldn't be otherwise. That is what soccer is about. Think about some third world country dreaming about their national team beating USA. Now thats something. Just an example though.

I understand. Now that I think of it, beating the US on the soccer field might be a good way for countries to harmlessly blow off some anti American steam.

Extremely close to my own position. So close that I suspect that you have been sneaking from my supply of laudinum. I shall send you a servant carrying a bill for 2 and 6, sir, and expect prompt recompense!

Not at all old chap, we have the same supplier. You know, One Arm Choy who operates out of Macao. I'll send back a case of Cubans with your servant

 

[Dell19]

What about the hundreds of domestic leagues?

 

[The 777 Hoax]

I'm watching it a little bit, but I have to watch it on the Spanish channel, so I don't really know what's going on.

 

[Simon Darkshade]

Not at all old chap, we have the same supplier. You know, One Arm Choy who operates out of Macao. I'll send back a case of Cubans with your servant

By Jove, you could be right! He's one of Fu Manchu's men; met him during a baccarat game at the elephant hunt at the Duke of New Swabia's little soiree on about March 43rd. Completely off his tittle on kerosene, and has to support nineteen and a half children, which is difficult with only one leg, which is how he got his name. I remember his comment on my morning fez, a nice little number in lime,
"Darkshade," he said "I don't understand how they manage to get the cat to sit on this bottle of Shell?"
"Nonsense, my dear boy, you should be like me!"
"But look at you, you're shaking all over!"
"Shaking, you silly boy! I'm just doing the Watusi, that's all"
And so it went until I tired and retired to go put my feet up on a pageboy and listen to the Heroic Polonaise on banjo played by one of the sickly offspring of my winged monkey secretarial pool while smoking a herring and enjoying a light apperitif of head cheese steak cooked in a washing machine with a side of crushed newspaper and Brylcream.

Those were the days.
The nights were different altogether. Sun disappeared for one thing.


And that is the equivalent of the sense that soccer makes to me, although patriotism demands that I make some motion towards this upcoming fixture against the I-talians. So go for it lads! Pick the ball up and run with it.

 

[ComradeDavo]

I didn't realise the number was that high!

OMG !!! was joking about the GNR thing and the ignore list but now!!!!

 

[colony]

Another Englishamn who couldn't really care less about the World Cup.

I just wish it wasn't so hard to avoid it, even at a certain music festival it was on a big screen

The sooner they lose the sooner I can get back to being completely oblivious to the whole sport, and not having the latest news on Rooney's foot rammed down my throat.

 

[Yeeek]

I understand. Now that I think of it, beating the US on the soccer field might be a good way for countries to harmlessly blow off some anti American steam.

Didn't really meant it this way as in anti-americanism and now that i re-read myself, its a bad example.

Football is a game played world wide, for milions of childrens its their only entertainement. While i don't share all the hype about the world cup i can understand how a whole country can support their team.

 

[ComradeDavo]

I just wish it wasn't so hard to avoid it, even at a certain music festival it was on a big screen

I was down the front moshing to Arch Enemy and singing along to Alice In Chains

 

[colony]

I was down the front moshing to Arch Enemy and singing along to Alice In Chains

I wouldn't have minded so much if I hadn't been so desperate for water after Arch Enemy. It felt like an oven down at the front sometimes

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Another Englishamn who couldn't really care less about the World Cup.

I just wish it wasn't so hard to avoid it, even at a certain music festival it was on a big screen

The sooner they lose the sooner I can get back to being completely oblivious to the whole sport, and not having the latest news on Rooney's foot rammed down my throat.

Sorry buddy, the minute England lose you're going to be stuck with weeks upon weeks of analysis of every England game, documentaries of footballs and a comparison with a certain '66 game.

And for the rest of the WC, the British commentary isn't going to go five minutes without mentioning the English FC