Storm in a (Jules Rime)t cup

[battle_kitten]

I don't like football. There I've said it. A bit of a kickabout in the park is alright, but I'd rather have a frisbee and as for watching tiny little people running round on a TV screen? Forget it.

On the whole I don't like watching sports on TV, it's just not for me, it seems so detatched from anything real and personally I find it incredibly

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[mezzogiorno]

I'm ambivalent to football, but I love the World Cup. I love the sticker collecting, and getting interested and excited about all of the teams, and making a little social occasion out of the matches. What I hate, like you, is any notion of forced patriotism. Hang an England flag, buy England shirts (I got one today), but don't try to guilt others into it. When I went into the shop here to get my England shirt, the person said "Why do you want them, they suck" which I found equally obnoxious, and possibly it was the effect of that person's patriotism (I think they were American, hahaha who sucks at football now).

I wish it was what it should be, about getting excited about your own specific team, having pride in them, and enjoying the ride and being able to lose graciously. Not shoving anything down anyone else's throat, or rubbing their noses in their mistakes. But I know I'm not perfect in this way either, I want to see America lose at any opportunity ;)

I don't know...that was all a bit rambly, just to say that while my opinion on enjoyment of the World Cup is different, I am annoyed by the same things as you are.

[battle_kitten]

Indeed, I may not like the world cup, but I completely don't mind that other people that do and will get a lot out of it. It's just the falseness, commercialism and 'partiotism' that I don't like, bleurgh, and the person in the shop sounds ike a jerk!