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  • Football, Whats the point,especially the world cup.
  • project
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    So a gang of 11 lads without proper jobs,(but semingly well off)go to south africa, to kick a ball around the park with a load of teams of foreigners, all with 11 in.

    Then over here,we have Adrain Child,getting a lot of money to tell us all about it,all the newspapers going on about it, and some giving out free flags.

    We also have car and van drivers shoving flags on their windows, then forgeting theyre there when they open the window, and we get thousands of flags dead on the sides of the road.

    Now we have somebody called ferdinand with a sore leg, and he cant play with the other lads.

    What the hell is that all about.

    simonfbarnes
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    I think it's for people too lazy to do stuff themselves…

    emac65
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    You missed out – & some eejit who rides a bike asking about it…. 8)

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    nickjb
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    You think that's crazy, I know a chap who spends hours just riding up and down hills on his pushbike and ends up exactly where he started

    emac65
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    😆

    Suburbanlife
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    There's one benefit – the roads will be nice and quiet for a couple of hours – another excuse to get out and ride. 😛

    Cougar
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    <– can't abide football, I'm going to find a forest to ride round in till it's all over.

    allthepies
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    Guess you were picked last for sports at school 🙂

    Some people (me included) happen to like football and appreciate the skills involved in the beautiful game. Unless you've actually played footie you'll always struggle to appreciate just how good the top guys are.

    esselgruntfuttock
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    And I thought it was just me.
    Also, who else apart from me, can't name one single player who's on the team? I know Franz Ferdinand isn't playing cos I saw it on Yahoo, & that other bloke, Waldorf or summink, he got the thumbs down on a golf course. Thats it, thats my knowledge of England football & the world cup.

    AdamW
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    The one thing I don't understand are some flags that you see attached to cars.

    I generally think "Fine, each to their own!" (me being Welsh/Irish and all) but I cannot for the life of me understand why patriotic Englishmen would buy the flag of St George with the word 'ENGLAND' written through the middle of it.

    Are they so thick they don't know their own flag or assume that everyone else is so thick they wouldn't recognise it in the same country as the flag represents? I asked a German colleague if they have German flags out for the world cup thingy and he said "Yes" but then says that they don't have the word 'Deutschland' written through them and thought it bizarre.

    Odd. That is all. Carry on!

    esselgruntfuttock
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    Guess you were picked last for sports at school I know that wasn't aimed at me but I won the school X country & I played on the footy team (we got beat 6-0 & i only played once)

    Now I wish I was in Philadelphia tonight, where there's a real mans game being played.

    project
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    allthepies – Member
    Guess you were picked last for sports at school

    Some people (me included) happen to like football and appreciate the skills involved in the beautiful game. Unless you've actually played footie you'll always struggle to appreciate just how good the top guys are.

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    What skill is involved in running round a field,chaseing a ball, my dog used to do that,and then falling on the floor pretending a naughty man had kicked you,then finally at the end taking your sweaty shirt off and giving it to a stranger,in exchange for his,surely you should give it to the wife to wash.

    pop-larkin
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    I dont like sprouts but don't feel the need to post a thread on the fact- I keep it to myself……damn the cat's out the bag now!

    CaptainFlashheart
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    Guess you were picked last for sports at school

    Nope. Very much not the case in a wide range of sports (Rugby, Hockey, Cricket and Athletics primarily)

    project
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    Adam w, just think of the red flag as a sign of some idiot driving a car and like in the days of the Black Death when doors had a red cross on them to warn the house was contaminated.

    Just give them a wide birth.

    bloodynora
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    esselgruntfuttock- What real mans game is being played in Philadelphia… Basketball? A game for tall freaks or Baseball? Its just Rounders really isn't it…. Says a lot for American sport when they are the only ones who compete in the 'World Series'

    allthepies
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    >Nope. Very much not the case in a wide range of sports (Rugby, Hockey, Cricket and Athletics primarily)

    Was nae talking to yowse 🙂 But I see football doesn't figure on your list…

    tails
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    The World Cup is great, it creates a feel good factor that only the olympics can compete with. People get to sing and dance on the street, others get consoled by some foreigner they will likely never meet again then they sing and dance together. If you can't see the joy the World Cup has brought the people of South Africa and join in with it then it's your loss.

    iDave
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    i've never seen this sport. where people just run around a field chasing a ball. it sounds much easier than the football i played where we had to get a ball into a net using only feet and head while running with opponents trying to stop us. that required a lot of skill to do it properly. skill that may be alien to the likes of project. still, anything for another whine or troll

    project
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    Ok then iDave 2 teams of blokes running round a field,both with the same idea of kicking a ball between to posts,AND ONLY ONE BALL,

    Skill you could all stand in the same place,just like a football game with poles through their bodies as seen in pubs etc.

    Sadly football is a huge waste of time and money,for the general mases, and will have little effect on the poor of South Africa,

    iDave
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    what evidence is your opinion based on other than what you think?

    esselgruntfuttock
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    esselgruntfuttock- What real mans game is being played in Philadelphia… Basketball? A game for tall freaks or Baseball? Its just Rounders really isn't it…. Says a lot for American sport when they are the only ones who compete in the 'World Series'

    Oh dear oh dear. Youv'e led a very sheltered life obviously. I'll give you a clue…how well can YOU ice skate while trying to control a very hard rubber disk &/or pass it to a team-mate while travelling at 15-20 mph while avoiding being hit by blokes this big…

    & all the while, you have devoted your entire playing career, even since childhood, towards getting your name engraved forever on this…

    Now please don't say another thing until youv'e actually watched a Stanley Cup game.

    I like football, but the idea of having 2 balls in play at once intrigues me. Come on FIFA, move with the times.

    Edric64
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    I have watched my son develop as a footballer over 5 years he is still only 10 .It keeps him very fit teaches him team work and builds a network of friends .It teaches him respect and humility (at this age anyway)And it makes me happy to see him do well its a great game.

    Suburbanlife
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    Yeah the kids seem to love the game atthat age – it's just the parents fighting and bitching on the touchlines!I've seen some ugly scenes, although heard about one of the Dads punching the coach who ultimately gets banned along with his kid who loses his network of friends. It seems to me a game which brings out the best and worst in people.

    Cougar
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    Guess you were picked last for sports at school

    Not quite last, but it usually boiled down to "well, it's either Cougar or the fat kid, I suppose we'd better have Cougar then." I was a girly swot at school and therefore almost unanimously unpopular with everyone else.

    Ironically perhaps, I'm now the one doing all the biking and climbing and running etc, and the 'sporty' ones from school seem to have spent the last twenty years retaining pies.

    If that's what being a 'football fan' means, sitting in a comfy chair drinking Stella whilst everyone else plays, frankly, I'm glad to be out of it. I'd rather do something than watch some bugger else do it.

    Swiftacular
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    Troll.

    lobby_dosser
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    Football is briliant. For those that don't get it there are billions that do. In it's purest form, as a participation sport, you need very little outlay to get started. You don't need to spend hundreds or thousands to buy fancy specialist equipment. In fact all you have to do to get started is ask 'any chance of a game' if you see 'footballers' at it. Football has no boundaries, if you go to most places in the world football is played no matter of race, religion, height, nationality, wealth, age or sex. It can be played indoors or outdoors and the playing area can be improvised in any available space. It takes fitness, skill, knowledge, practise, courage, dedication and teamwork to progess at it.

    The players that make it to the very top level don't need to have came from a privledged background or relied on sponsorship or had the best equipment available to them.

    You don't like it fair enough, but billions do for a reason.

    2tyred
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    I LOVE the world cup – football overload, exaggerated national stereotypes, drinking alcohol in the nice weather, The Guardian's guide (out today), getting to talk about football all the time, despairing of Italy, the predictor competition, the surprise success of a plucky outsider, a Scot's amusement at the English hype/performance parabola combined with the frission of fear over the remote possibility they win it, getting to roar advice at professional athletes from the comfort of the sofa and Mrs tyred feels powerless to question my right to watch it all!

    And not even being that gutted when it all ends because we can get straight into le Tour.

    Now please don't say another thing until youv'e actually watched a Stanley Cup game

    I tried to, but the puck moved too fast so I couldn't see what was happening and there wasn't as much fighting as I was expecting. They want to make the puck flash red or something.

    Almost as disappointing a spectator sport as bullfighting. £5 for a can of coke and the seat was so far away I couldn't see any of the cows getting stabbed.

    steffybhoy
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    Football is briliant. For those that don't get it there are billions that do. In it's purest form, as a participation sport, you need very little outlay to get started. You don't need to spend hundreds or thousands to buy fancy specialist equipment. In fact all you have to do to get started is ask 'any chance of a game' if you see 'footballers' at it. Football has no boundaries, if you go to most places in the world football is played no matter of race, religion, height, nationality, wealth, age or sex. It can be played indoors or outdoors and the playing area can be improvised in any available space. It takes fitness, skill, knowledge, practise, courage, dedication and teamwork to progess at it.

    The players that make it to the very top level don't need to have came from a privledged background or relied on sponsorship or had the best equipment available to them.

    You don't like it fair enough, but billions do for a reason.

    Took the words outa my mouth, this thread proves that STW is is full of middle class arrogance/ignorance.
    Football is a global sport for both participating and spectating in.
    And like it or lump it has always been popular mainly with the working classes.
    So I can understand why the STW massive "Don't get it"

    Swiftacular
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    Well said steffybhoy.

    lobby_dosser
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    obviously you don't like football with a name like steffybhoy though 😉

    samuri
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    Cougar
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    Troll.

    What, I'm not allowed to have a different opinion to you without being labelled a troll?

    I don't like football. You do. I'm cool with the fact that you do. Why is it an issue that I don't?

    monkeychild
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    I enjoy playing football but watching it bores me to tears the same way watching le tour or xc mountain biking does. I prefer doing it to watching it its a similar thing with porn too 😀

    goon
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    Never mind the football. I'm off to watch 55 cars drive round in circles for 24 hours next weekend. What's the point of that? Pure entertainment when it comes down to it.

    I'm no football fan, but we'll be breaking off from the racing on Saturday night to watch England v USA, and I'll really enjoy doing so.

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