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As a film freak, I'm not entirely unsympathetic; I just don't see myself exaggerating like this. I'm not going to cry like a baby if Bond 24 should only make 120 million at the BO. I'm not going to punch someone in the face when he or she says something negative about Dalton. I'm not even going to get worked up over it. I won't paint my face in 007 logo's and somehow I don't see how spending time with my hobby is synonymous with drinking gallons of beer.
Even then, if you really are into this and you study the soccer players, teams and matches carefully, I respect you for it. We all have a hobby. But what's with all those people who don't know the first thing about soccer, yet so desperately try to be part of it by pretending to be experts? Some of them formulate opinions that would make a banana feel smart. They prognosticate like it's an exact science: it's going to end up 2 - 0 for this and this and ... and this reason - and it goes on like this for hours! Then, when the game ends on 1 - 4, some more crazy bull gets pulled to explain that. People love the team of their home country, even if a) they hate their country for almost every other reason and b) most of the players in the team come from the other side world anyway.
Still, I'm fine with almost all of this but please, leave me out of it. And I'm sure I'm not the only one who doesn't care one second about soccer. Drop all you want to say about soccer in the sports pages but keep it off the front page of my news paper. I expect news, i.e. things that matter on the front page. Game results are not more important than political, environmental, financial, ... news. Also, chant all you like in pubs, stadions and at home. Just don't scream your longs out with silly soccer chants while I'm riding my train to work, in the morning, hardly awake, my mind set on a day of teaching. Have fun, by all means do, but let me sleep at night and keep things decent when you walk by my house.
Soccer, I hate it. And for that, you don't get to disrespect me. But I know this whole thing is pretty controversial.
I find the monetary strain that football and their fans have on a local level way too much. We as tax paying individuals pay a lot of money for the upkeep of football club, the other sports just get less. The moronic fans of the game of football really should foot the bill in security and police presence instead of the general citizen. Which would lead to a more severe approach of said fans instead of clubs claiming they cannot be blamed, which is poppycock in my humble opinion.
NOT controversial at all.
And I agree with WillyGalore it is called football over most of the world.
I wanted to address what I perceive to be the majority of our forum members. ;-)
We call it football too. ;-)
For once the perceived majority of the forum members can go and f......... themselves simply because their football version is closer to rugby and "ball" is handled extensively by their hands. :D
And as kickers they hire generally football players of the correct persuasion.
And do not forget the World Championship Football is the largest watched televised sport event after the Olympics world wide.
:O
As in physical exercise or what? :\">
define sports?
But baseball, basketball, etc- I just never had an interest in any of it. I'm a weirdo
You're not, @Master_Dahark. As I kid I just couldn't understand what fascinated people so much about other people on a bike or kicking a ball around or swimming back and forth between twee sides of a pool or skiing down a cliff or ... Boring as hell! And don't know those people and I'm not the one doing the sports so why I would spend hours and hours watching them go through the same seemingly endless routine, I wouldn't know. My heroes were (and still are) film characters. ;-)
Oh and there's a football free pub in my town.
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tell them that in South America.
how about the popularity in the US? In Africa, In Asia?
It seems not to be limited to one continent but played on a rather large scale worldwide.
Except in Qatar. ;)
As for football, what is more boring than that? Except some other sports.
There aren't any dedicated sports channels on free-to-air TV in the UK.
Not free view, no. I would still put Football into Room 101, right after Michael Grade (because he's made of rubber, and he wobbles).
Nothing to do with his decision to cancel Doctor Who all those years ago? ;-)
Not at all, no...
That has about as much truth as Grade cancelling the show because of the production values, and not for his own personal grievance with Colin Baker.
But okay, I will confess something. I have for years followed professional snooker. I know, some don't think of snooker as a physical sport. I'm fine with that. But at least in snooker I can see a clear thought process come to fruition. With geometrical precision, obeying every law of Newtonian physics, a table is cleared by means of patient calculation. I understand that this is in turn what others find boring. It's not the type of thing where the inner beast awakens to beat up a full stadium of hooligans and normal people. Honestly, after the 1985 Heysel Stadium disaster, where loads of nitwits massacred dozens of people, I would have thought that this level of aggression might have gone cold. But no, football keeps driving people to primitive alcohol-induced madness. My own dad used to shout at the TV when a ball hit the goal, until my mother, with a little stimulation from me, told him which kind of ball sports he was going to do without if this nonsensical shouting didn't stop. ;-)