Stupid Football!

[tech_guy]

Any other football-haters on here? I detest the sport. They should make it more interesting with guns and swords.

 

Article on the Beeb:

 

BBC News - 10 ways football haters can tell it's World Cup time

[witch]

Me too! It is boring

The primary I work in has said that that children can come to school with red shirts or hats or England flags when there is a match. I don't disagree that football is popular, but we do have other sports such as Rugby and Cricket that occasionally we are quite good at too.

Why should football be special

[EduTech]

I'm not really a football person to be honest

Difficault being in an office full of footie fans I don't understand what they talk about lol!

[36Degrees]

Not necessarily a hater (yet!) but definitely not a fan. I'm already hacked off with the World Cup and it hasn't even started yet.

 

Is anyone else starting to receive questions about watching the England v Slovenia game at 3pm on Wednesday 23rd June in classrooms?

[Hightower]

I can't effing wait for Friday. As a gay TV presenter once 'nearly' said, "bring on the ball!". Will be taking a visit past the heads office later to see if he wants the afternoon England game sorting on the big screen.

 

ENG-ER-LAND! ENG-ER-LAND!

[laserblazer]

It's all the media hype that gets me. Why does it need 3-4 hours of TV just to broadcast a 90 minute match. Other sports are getting as bad. It's just cheap TV I guess.

[tech_guy]

They're talking about ending the school day early here so students and people can get home to watch it - how lame can you get?

[danrhodes]

I don't like football and will be keeping away from the WC as much as possible!

 

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[creese]

I don't like football and will be keeping away from the WC as much as possible!

 

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That could get very uncomfortable on the bladder. :-)

[solitaire89]

I'm with the football haters - I cannot see the point in a group of grown men kicking a bag of wind around. Then there's the fact that all normal life MUST stop because there's a game on. Oh, and don't even get me started on the inordinate money that they get paid for looking like a prat - anyone else up for recommending that the likes of the firemen and women get paid that amount instead of footballers?

[danrhodes]

Lol's WC = World Cup!

[mattx]

I've got a load of reading material and films to watch over this daft period. The only thing I'll be watching over the weekend is the F1. Then if it does not rain I'll be in the garden.

[Theblacksheep]

Me too! It is boring

The primary I work in has said that that children can come to school with red shirts or hats or England flags when there is a match. I don't disagree that football is popular, but we do have other sports such as Rugby and Cricket that occasionally we are quite good at too.

Why should football be special

 

Because rugby is a toffs game and cricket takes a whole day, at the very least....

 

you think football is boring, try watching a 3 day cricket match!

[danrhodes]

I'm with the football haters - I cannot see the point in a group of grown men kicking a bag of wind around. Then there's the fact that all normal life MUST stop because there's a game on. Oh, and don't even get me started on the inordinate money that they get paid for looking like a prat - anyone else up for recommending that the likes of the firemen and women get paid that amount instead of footballers?

 

Agreed, the people that are there to save our lives in our times of need such as Doctos, Nurses, Paramedics, Firemen etc get paid pittence when glorified football hooligans with a sense of direction get paid millions to kick as solitare puts it "a bag of wind" about!

 

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[danrhodes]

Because rugby is a toffs game and cricket takes a whole day, at the very least....

 

you think football is boring, try watching a 3 day cricket match!

 

I like 2020 cricket that takes only about 3 hours, has better colour uniforms and is just enough time to go from sober to drunk to bed!

[Hightower]

Why should football be special

 

Football isn't special though, well at least not by me. I love watching my country at all sports. Football, Rugby, Cricket, Olympics - you name it and if they are wearing an England/GB shirt I'll be sat there watching. I remember the Rugby World Cup years ago when pubs were opening at the crack of dawn so people could go in and watch it.

 

when glorified football hooligans with a sense of direction get paid millions to kick as solitare puts it "a bag of wind" about!

 

Do you like films? Do you watch your series and things like that?

[webman]

I hate football. The next month will be made even more worse as I live with two avid Boro fans who, no doubt, will be plastering the walls with posters and flags and other associated tat they can pick up relating to the world cup.

[tech_guy]

Like Mattx, I've been buying in loads of books, magazines and DVDs to keep me busy. Plus I'm starting a load of new projects so I'll have plenty to occupy my mind. The only thing I'll be watching on TV is F1 and the news (which gets turned off when any nonsense about football comes on).

[LeMarchand]

I'm with the football haters - I cannot see the point in a group of grown men kicking a bag of wind around. Then there's the fact that all normal life MUST stop because there's a game on. Oh, and don't even get me started on the inordinate money that they get paid for looking like a prat - anyone else up for recommending that the likes of the firemen and women get paid that amount instead of footballers?

 

Too right! Not to mention that it's very odd that men are seen as not being "real men" unless they enjoy watching a bunch of generally athletic guys running around in shorts for a couple of hours...

[Arcath]

Ive been asked about streaming it onto the hall projector...

 

I do hate football, its an annoying game. When i have a saturday afternoon free i would rather play some BC2, atleast then i get some sense of achievement out of the afternoon.

 

And the pay thing annoys me, why should some brain dead moron who has slightly higher eye foot co-ordination than most get payed millions of pounds? sends the wrong message. A teacher said that one of the kids in her class didnt ever do home work because he had decided he wanted to be a footballer, and his mum agreed. On the other hand we do need people to work at spar and co-op so its not all bad.

[tech_guy]

Too right! Not to mention that it's very odd that men are seen as not being "real men" unless they enjoy watching a bunch of generally athletic guys running around in shorts for a couple of hours...

 

Yes, I'm convinced that watching football has something to do with a deeply repressed homosexualised instinct....

 

[solitaire89]

Too right! Not to mention that it's very odd that men are seen as not being "real men" unless they enjoy watching a bunch of generally athletic guys running around in shorts for a couple of hours...

 

Haha - I'd never thought of it quite like that, but you are right! I'm just glad that my man is a "real man" that doesn't feel the need to look at men in shorts

 

My home is a football free place. Thinking of advertising in our local paper as a football free zone - £50 entry

[TechMonkey]

Not really a fan. Does mean I get to wander around town or the beach at certain times while it is nigh on empty. Put a few bets on and joined in the staff competition. Beyond that it will mean even less on TV and nodding blankly in even more conversations.

[Roopert]

I will admit to disliking the massive weight of coverage that surrounds football, to the detriment of other sports. I am also not much of a 'footy lad', but i do embrace the culture to some degree, the atmosphere at a match, the highs and lows and the good times when everyone gets together down the pub and enjoys a good game. And why not eh?

[tech_guy]

I'm the only one on my street that doesn't have either England flags on the car or in the house windows. One guy has even put up a great flagpole in his front garden with a massive England flag on it. I told him he needed planning permission for it - he thought I was joking but I'm right, he does