[Closed] World cup. It's finally here!!!!

[i]Stop buying Nike shoes, trek bikes, CDs and going to the pictures and they'll soon start earning less! simply really! [/i]

Works for me.

God almighty, can all of the 'haterz' please just **** off!!

Being an Englishman with close ties to South Africa (currently wearing my United 4 Bafana Bafana wristband 🙂 ) I am very excited about the whole thing.

I will be supporting (in order of preference):

1. England
2. South Africa
3. Holland ( I've been to Holland several times, including an upcoming bike tour, and they play good football, plus van Persie is ace)
4. Portugal (coz I stand to win money from the Sure deodorant company as thats the team i got when i bought a promotional can, this goes against my intense dis-like for that showy winker, but hey money's money)

Wooohooooooooooo!!!! Another mindlessly excited person here. And I'm a Man Yoo fan. And we're apparently not meant to do England supporting 😉

I'm sorry but if you're not having a barby tomorrow so you're stuffed full of charred meat and fizzy lager in time to get seriously giddy for kick off, then there's something wrong with you IMHO

I am right-royally looking forward to the next four weeks. I have no more to add.

Beautiful. Last coupla posts are what it's all about.
Lagertastic!!!!

the-muffin-man, are you after one of these? It is called a vuvuzela.

That's the one (probably not quite that big though!) - could sort of remember the name of them but had no idea how go about spelling it!!

I have no more to add.

I also have a pass-out for tomorrow night and, as I have to get my little girls to bed so I will be rushing, all my mates are getting a taxi to MY local so we can sit together and cheer on England over a beer. Then we are going into town for a curry.

Seriously - I have butterflies in my stomach right now. **** off Christmas, Santa would have to get me some serious gifts to better how I feel right now.

I, on the other hand, couldn't give a flying **** 😉 😆

I'm with the lovers. Italia 90 coincided exactly with the 4 weeks in between finishing the last of my finals at Uni and graduation (the day of the Final), and was the best 4 weeks of my life, ever.

And i can't put my finger on it, but I've been getting the same excitement building for this one.

Only issue is that my 2 traditional football watching mates are already off to SA to see the group games live. Any bike riding / football loving folks in the Guildford area fancy a 'quiet' pint and a watch tomorrow night?

I, on the other hand, couldn't give a flying ****

I'm with the lovers. Italia 90 coincided exactly with the 4 weeks in between finishing the last of my finals at Uni and graduation (the day of the Final), and was the best 4 weeks of my life, ever.

When we got to Germany two days later we expected to see a nation celebrating. How wrong were we? Miserable ****ers.

Lol@MF!

they're probably yoghourt weaving Guardian readers too

You know, the Guardian are actually really into football.

But in any case, I am seriously excited about it. I get excited about any big international sporting event - Olympics, Winter Olympics, anything. I just love the atmosphere, watching two teams I care nothing about slog it out with all the passion and fervour they can muster.. the true pinnacle of the heart of sport. Love it.

Course I don't ski, sprint, curl, fence, box, play football, rugby, or cricket or any of the rest of it, but I still love it.

Vive la sport!

Supporting:

1) England
2) USA (through marriage)
3) RSA

BTW jonv, for 2002 I was off work, so my days were: get up, get coffee, watch football til afternoon, then ride in the sunshine. That was one of the best times of my life!

My brother was made redundant earlier in the year and he has delayed looking for a job so he can watch the whole tournament. Fortunately he is financially secure so he didn't need to find anything straight away.

I was footie mad all the way through school, college and uni, but lost interest when I gave up playing. I'll still watch some matches on telly if I'm in the house, but probably won't go out of my way to be near a TV for any of the games though.

Nevertheless, looking forward to seeing whatever games I can see and I will almost definitely watch the final regardless of who is in it.

Argentina 1978 and Italia 90 were the best tournaments - magic atmospheres and the game was purer, less cynical, less commercial back then.

Btw I do not follow domestic football, but love the world cup. Is this wrong?

come on the winners!

**** off Christmas, Santa would have to get me some serious gifts to better how I feel right now.
Pisser ha ha.

 

@molgrips. Not a single problem with that, I follow (ahem) derby but that's about it, dont care who's in European games, I support them all, including gers and Celtic. But when it comes to England I follow with a passion, house move scuppered any chances of going out there. When people ask who I support I just generally say the England team, have done since listening to the 90 semi final on a radio whilst washing pots in the local bistro! I still regret taking that job!!

headfirst - Member

God almighty, can all of the 'haterz' please just * off!!

How about all the 'supporters' and 'fans' * off to a football forum?

Just another option to be considered here, on a mountain biking forum. 😕

Just another option to be considered here, on a mountain biking forum

What we need is for the forum owners to divide the forum in two, one for the bike posts, and another for the rest. That would be great!

[edit] mogrim beat me to it. I think the thread title is fairly obvious. I know my wife who also frequents this forum just won't bother reading it.

Not long now!!
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Cheer up you miserable old bugger. We only get to do this every four years. Get involved. You never know. You might enjoy it 🙂

I'm sorry I thought this was the chat forum, for things not related to bikes, such as politics, stuff people know nothing about but like to comment on and even football you ejits! I'm sure the one titled bike forum might cover that area! Oh and if you don't like it don't read it, coz I can assure you over the next 4 weeks there's gonna be a whole lot more like this. So shut up, go away and read about headsets or tyres xx

What we need is for the forum owners to divide the forum in two, one for the bike posts, and another for the rest. That would be great!

Just saw on SA news that Madiba won't be at the opening ceromony & match as previously planned - his greta garand daughter was killed in a car crash late last night/early this morning 🙁

All the haters are in the proper place, they are mountain biking lovers.

Can all the football fans please bugger off to a football forum?

I suspect the answer is no.......

No

We'll have no talk of other things around here.

Even if it is in the 'chat' forum.

Waderider - Member
Can all the football fans please bugger off to a football forum?

As long as all the sad losers promise to stop posting about their disasterous lives, impending joblessness, borked relationships, busted cars, and million pound watches 😉

I'm sorry but if you're not having a barby tomorrow so you're stuffed full of charred meat and fizzy lager in time to get seriously giddy for kick off, then there's something wrong with you IMHO

I'll be doing 105 miles on the bike instead. so I'll probably be giddy before kick off as well...

Having a few problems getting into this world cup thanks to that Thierry Henry chappy and his ****ing left hand!

Off to France at the weekend and taking my Ireland cycling top to shove in there embarrassed faces...........

I can still remember my first world cup in 1970 with the legendary Brazil team really well. Didn't see many foreign players back then, or games on tv, so a real revelation to see Pele and co play the beautiful game.

I am a football fan, although I don't follow a domestic team as there are no premiership teams near me and I'd much rather be out on my bike at the weekend (even in the winter!) than watching a game live. However, I cannot wait for the world cup to start, I'm finishing early today to catch as much of SA v Mexico as possible. I don't expect the haters to understand why, can't really explain it myself really. I have a table in the pub booked with a bunch of mates tomorrow and, best of all, I just found out we've got table service so no queueing at the bar missing the action, bring it on!!

Just consider for a moment the temporary insanity that is religion and vitriol that gets poured onto that subject on this forum and you'll have an insight into why I hate football so much.

ScottyJohn had it terribly right when he referred to the whole 'mass psychosis'.

Football is basically second only to religion in terms of tribalism IMO. I can perfectly understand the need for people to feel 'affiliation' and of course I need it myself. I think the problem comes when that affiliation turns into something more repugnant like the vain, shallow, vaccuous culture that surrounds football. It's very difficult to hate the game itself, after all it's just a game. I suspect what people hate is the culture that accompanies it.

bring it on.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH

THE GREATEST SHOW ON TURF

I did rather like Charlie Brookers description of football in Mondays Guardian

22 Millionaires ruining a lawn 😀

Up here in Scotland you would hardly know that the competition is going to start today 🙁

As an Englishman I enjoy living up here in Scotland, most of the time.

When England play I just stay at home 🙁

ScottyJohn had it terribly right when he referred to the whole 'mass psychosis'.

That's the particular kind of psychosis known as 'joy' or 'excitement'.

That's the particular kind of psychosis known as 'joy' or 'excitement'.

Ooh how close you are to religion my friend. The word 'joy' in particular is often used by Christians to describe their feelings towards God.

Christ there are some right miserable bastards on here

geetee1972

Wow. You really do have all the answers.

Christ there are some right miserable bastards on here

I would steal that from my signature, if this forum had them.

STW could just use it as a strapline for the forum.

Opening ceremony has kicked off....its damn funky so far!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/matches/match_01

Ooh how close you are to religion my friend

Are you suggesting that is somehow a bad thing? 😉

(did you read the threads about religion on which I argued?)

Down the local bar tonight to watch the second game of the tournament and boo France. A few people with us no little about football but want to come for the atmosphere.
Really looking forward to the WC - rather have been playing - but will watch and pick my rides more carefully for a month.