Can't stand football but am also one of those types for whom sitting watching sports equals to just a great amount of torture. [i]
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Anyone else really really really not appreciate football?
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A sport that makes more sense the drunker you are! Mercenaries that sell their skills for a fortune and brain washed idiots that will pay over prices admission fees and allow their state of mind to be determined by events they cannot control.
I think football Rocks!!! What do you think they would be doing if they didn’t watch it? Every time they landed a jump they would be grabbing at their crotches or pulling funny faces and that kind of sh1ts bound to cause accidents.As for all the well invested money in stadiums when we can’t even get uplifts or decent facilities while theme parks open up all over Europe and the world.
God bless grown men who talk about other men playing with their balls all the time!Posted 2 years ago # -
I dislike watching most TV sports as I'd rather be out there doing it myself.
BUT football is for chavs. The players argue with the ref and the general air is very uncouth.
But if it stops the chavs from burgling my house on a weekend if I'm out riding whilst a match is on then fair play!! A further bonus is that it keeps the roads clear if there's a big match on. Long live footy!
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People enjoy all sorts of sports and good luck to them
(I like to watch a test match myself)Trouble is that football seems more rammed-down-your-throat than the others so If (like me) you hate it it can be pretty damn annoying. Its on the TV, its on my radio at work, its all over the papers and people are even arguing about the game in the locker room.
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I hate football, always have. Its a thugs sport played by thugs and watched by thugs IMO.
I used to have to take clients to Liverpool FC on a regular basis where we had seats. I hated every minute of it, well the food before hand was always nice but the football bit and having to talk about / listen to football stuff for the SATURDAY!!! (when I should have been at home)was crap.
The language is terrible from the players and fans which upsets me a bit. Myself and daughter were at a local amateur football game (we rode past on our bikes and my girl wanted to stop and watch it for a bit and it was free to go in etc) and I can only say how disgusted I was at the players bad language. FOUL.
My brother hates football more than i do and he once got out of a taxi just 4 minutes into the journey because the driver wouldn't stop talking about football and kept asking what team he supported etc. he got fed up saying things like, "I hate football, have no interest in, know nothing about etc etc" so he asked to stop and got out.
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Can't believe nobody has pointed out this is totally in the wrong section. What's this got to do with a Bike Forum ?
Not only that but if you do go down the pub surely you talk about all sorts of things - really INTERESTING things....like politics, bin men only picking up every other week, snow, rain, BBC, etc.. Football doesn't seem so bad now, does it ?Posted 2 years ago # -
I don't like football anymore, I did until watching Everton capitulate in dire fashion to Sporting Lisbon. What a ridiculous game, I don't see how people can get so worked up about it, ooooh, I'd much rather spend my precious time writing disparaging remarks on internet forums.
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In many instances its nothing more than inverse snobbery.
no, I just hate it for its own sake
But that's OK, I don't have to watch
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I love football! I (read my Dad) pays a small fortune to watch the Villa when I should be doing something more productive. It gives me something to do on a lazy afternoon, and something to talk about in the pub.
I've got my ticket for the final on sunday and love the camaraderie that comes from singing in the stands and having a laugh with people on a saturday you'd never otherwise speak to.
Whilst I understand that people aren't interested in it, I don't understand why people go out of their way to let people know they don't like football. Jeez, I've got better things to do than discuss "What tyres for..." so why shouldn't I spend my time doing things I enjoy? Or does the fact that I like football mean that I'm no longer good enough for STW?
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No problem with the game just the minority of players that spoil it and act as bad examples. Also "football culture" is a bit of an eyesore. As long as they are paying taxes I don't really mind that they're earning disproportionate amounts. Most of that money comes from companies wanting to sponsor/buy rights and people going to enjoy watching a match and surely it's better that that money gets a proportion of it back into the treasury than being spent on cali-spesh, kestrel super or in the case of the sponsors, sat in some swiss bank account.
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I love football but dislike a lot of footballers.
Saying that, most pro roadies seem like tosspotsPosted 2 years ago # -
Cool-hand-luke - Member
The language is terrible from the players and fans which upsets me a bit. Myself and daughter were at a local amateur football game (we rode past on our bikes and my girl wanted to stop and watch it for a bit and it was free to go in etc) and I can only say how disgusted I was at the players bad language. FOUL.
lol how much of a girl do you sound!! How does a bit of swearing "upset" you - MTFU
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No interest whatsoever, every monday morning the conversation at work is football - boring!!
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No interest whatsoever, every monday morning the conversation at work is football - boring!!
So you didn't see the game last night then?
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watching young men running around in shorts getting sweaty and acting "macho"
no wonder its popular
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lol how much of a girl do you sound!! How does a bit of swearing "upset" you - MTFU
read the post again and have a think about it. For what is promoted to be a family sport (well fathers and sons atleast) there's some pretty bad examples of discipline and language - these well paid professionals with the eyes of most of the country on them are supposed to be setting an example after all.Whilst I understand that people aren't interested in it, I don't understand why people go out of their way to let people know they don't like football
posting about it on a bike forum is hadly going out of my way and while I see your point I also have to put up with all sorts of football info getting shoved in my face.
Why do guys like you and I know who Vanessa Perroncel is? Is this essential to our survival in the hunter-gatherer sense?
No
We are consumers of football
We are by-products of a national obsession.Posted 2 years ago # -
if you swear then stop wingeing, if you are a nun or vicar fair play and i stand corrected!!
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I've not read any of the posts, but I do not like football in any way shape or form! I didn't know it was the world cup this year untill I heard it on the radio this week - it comes around bloody quick!
And I'm straight, just thought I'd add that
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--And seeing people shouting at a screen in a pub is weird.
Hmm
Emotionally repressed?I kind of agree with the original person, I just don't get the shouting a the screen thing. It makes no difference, why do it? Not emotionally repressed, I'm capable of all emotions, just not directed at an inanimate object. It's called logic I think. Still, each to their own, but it does wreck a nice evening in the pub with mates.
The mitchell and webb sketch is very accurate.
It applies to all sports though, why sit and watch it and comment about how good people are, get out there and do it yourself instead of watching, and talk about your own matches. I can actually listen to mates discussing their own matches, that's fun, but not discussing some random TV scenes.
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It gives me something to do on a lazy afternoon,
lazy afternoon ? Time to ride surely ?
and something to talk about in the pub.
had I nothing to talk about I'd shut up. I suppose. I'll let you know if it ever happens.
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Thank god I'm not the only one.
+1 for the Mitchell & Webb sketch.
Personally I think football takes up too much TV time surely other sports should be getting some screen time?
Most of the time people (men) don't believe me when I say I don't watch it, I generally get called gay, which results in the following response 'Hang on, I'm gay because I don't like watching 22 men run around in shorts, yeahhh OK then!'
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simon - some people have more interests than bikes and one handed computer use, struggling to comprehend that?
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simon - some people have more interests than bikes and one handed computer use, struggling to comprehend that?
this thread isn't about what other people like
PS I'm also not interested in bikes, only riding them
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ralph,
lol how much of a girl do you sound!! How does a bit of swearing "upset" you - MTFU
How do you think the use of "MTFU" makes you sound? Cultured, thoughtful, original, reasonable, open, grown-up?
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I don't like football either. When someone at work asked "who do you support" ( not which football team). I said Mapei Quickstep. The look of incomprehension as he tried to work his way through all the european football teams was a picture.
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Cultured, thoughtful,
original, reasonable, open, grown-up?to be fair I consider myself to be all of those but I still enjoy swearing :o)
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Mapei Quickstep
was that 10 years ago?
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I'm afraid it probably was
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It gives me something to do on a lazy afternoon
wow I remember those.. (before the little dude came along) damn sure I wouldnt waste one of those now watching football
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Because he used to make this thread worth a read
wundred...
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I have very little / no football knowledge.
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football is crap
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football = sport = mtb
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I absolutely can't be arsed with it, which is a shame cos at work the vast majority of the lads are right into it which quite often leaves me out of the conversation. Believe me I've tried to watch it & learn so at least I know what the lads are on about but I usually fall asleep.
International ice hockey for me, NHL in particular & can't wait for tonights final with USA & Canadia! When you've watched a bit of decent standard hockey you realise the commitment made by the players, ok the top boys are on daft money but just watch the final stages of the Stanley Cup series & you'll see what I mean.Posted 2 years ago #
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