Bloody men and sport

[Whizkidwithacrazystreak]

I am not being unreasonable to be totally fucked off that my DH arrived home just as I got the dcs to bed and then race the the TV to watch sport and wait.... have the audacity to ask me to go get him beers.

Just whinging here as it makes it better somehow.

YABU to say "bloody men" as if it is being a man that is causing him to be inconsiderate.

I'm in the same boat, friggin football! The worst of it is my dh tries to get me excited about the match. He starts giving me snippets of info about the players, rule etc. Even when I blatantly ignore him, carry on reading etc it doesn't deter him. it must be copius amounts of alcohol that makes him think I'm interested By the end of the shit game my eyes have glazed over and I've lost the will to live.

Your thread title should be bloody sports fans and sport. Men do not act as a homogenous mass.

This is not about men. Not all men watch football, or are lazy inconsiderate arseholes. DH loathes football with every fibre of his being - as do I.

It is actually a major competition. There's a lot riding on this match, and I can quite understand why he was keen to get home and in front of the telly - and once there, to not miss any of it.

YABU to tar all men with the same brush. However, YANBU to be cross with him for demanding beer from you. Tell him he can get it himself!

Is he like this all the time? then YANBU

Or, is it because England are playing in the Euro 2012 championship in which case YABU

Oh another night of football here. I have worked, made tea, taken our DD dancing, done the bedtime routine. He is watching football again!
YANBU!

I love the fact that DH is not into any sports as I find them all extremely boring. The company he works for closed down for 2 days last time there was a football tournament and he lost 2 days holiday because of it. That was them BU as he wanted to take those days elsewhere and we had to cancel our plans because of it. If they chose to shut down for football it should have just been extra days off not AL out of fairness to those who are not interested. After all if he asked for extra time to go to the festival of history or a concert they'd tell him where to go. I find the entire obsession with sports very tedious. It's OK to like them if it's your thing but the hysteria over football is OTT.

Thank you SOT.
Dr Coconut -that story is crazy. I understand the love of 'sport', but only some of the games and football doesn't fall into this category. I find the players to be bad role models, and they earn too much money. It's surprising that England could rustle up a team to complete IMO.

Anyway bed and book for me now.

Goodnight.

My husband leaves work early sometimes (like today) to watch these matches. So he either takes vaca time or goes unpaid for an hr or 2. I don't get this - why the hell is this so important? Money is more important than a football match, but he thinks I am being "unreasonable".

It drives me nuts!!!

It's important to have leisure time though. An England match is only 90 minutes and the Euros are only once every 4 years. I don't understand people who hate sport or hate football.

Why would you understand the love of sport but not the love of football? That's perverse!

Not all the players are bad role models by any stretch of the imagination.

YANBU, let him die of thirst get his own beers!

I am single but absolutely dread dating a sports/football nut! YUK!

My DH is not interested at all so we dont watch any football in this house.

I like to watch tennis, gymnastics, stuff like that but generally we dont watch much sport at all.

YABU its only on for a short time,cut him some slack

is it so bad he has an intrest

YANBU make him get his own beers

YABU to think all men are the same, my Dh loves the football, would have loved to watch the whole match last night but came home, helped with running the kids round and tidying up, then sat down to watch the end of the first half and the second half, while getting himself something to drink. (and I read my book)

It always annoyed me that DH - who would NEVER commit to being home at any particular time for something I wanted to do has ALWAYS managed to get home in time for The Big Match, or a social engagement with his mates.

I have deliberately steered clear of football fans for the very reason that most of them seem to put football (which is a deathly dull game however you slice it) before everything else. There is something about football that makes the majority of fans completly obsessive. It is bizarre.

God I've never heard so much whinging and whining over a 3 week football tournament that only occurs every 2 years.

I can't stand Wimbledon, it happens every bloody year and yet it wouldn't enter my head to start a thread complaining about it....especially if there were a ton of bloody threads already!

Hear, hear, worra!

meh

That came out as a bit of a rant, didn't it?

Great sketch from football non-fan David Mitchell

I don't think you can quite claim that this only happens every 4 years when the World Cup happens in the middle. The same sort of thing happens every 2 years.

Still less than Wimbledon though.

And as has been demonstrated, not all men like football, not all football fans are rude and inconsiderate, and not all fans who make watching the game a priority fail to make time to see their children and help around the house during the time that the game is not on.