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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[_pinkdaisy_]

I prefer to support Serbia ;)

The one good thing is that places that aren't bars become pleasantly quiet for a month - parks, cinemas etc...

[themikado]

Great post. I've always hated football, but somehow it's different when you're not living in the UK. I'm actually going to go to the pub with some fellow ex-pats, have a few beers and watch some games - precisely because there are no screaming idiots dressed in red and white who have been drinking since noon the previous day. much more civilised here. :)

[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

[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!