To be bored of the World Cup already?!

[AnonymousBird]

I can muster no enthusiasm, no one I know is even talking about it, is it just a big non-event? I am sure in past years there has been lots of hype and publicity about games and world cup parties. Nothing this year (which is great by me!) it seems or am I living in a bubble and the rest of the nation is going nuts?

I think everyone knows this team won't do that great
They keep saying it's about experience & looking towards the future

I'm hoping that maybe the lack of pressure and expectation will work for the team

(even though I know it won't)

It's huge here (London). It's all we've heard heard about for weeks.

There are even World Cup restaurant specials.

I love football, though, so I've been looking forward to this. I cannot wait.

Football themed CBeebies is driving me mad. We're not a sporty household. I didn't even realize it started today until the CBeebies presenters told me SmallBoy.

Well I'm looking forward to it. We're rooting for England (but never expect much) and Bosnia Herzegovina - dd1 pulled out that team in her class's world cup sweepstake! I've just ordered a Bos/Herz flag! That'll confuse the neighbours.

We all have second teams - I always go for Germany (I love spoken German). Ds1 is going for Spain and ds2 for Ghana. Not sure about dh. Just bought a bottle of cachaca for cocktails this evening.

Massive fucking bore. And with each World Cup which goes by, I feel more and more uneasy about it. This one in Brazil, within sight of desperately poor people living in rubbish, with footballers whose annual wages run into millions, is particularly shit.

I've had my free copy of the Sun this morning and am considering wiping my arse on it.

We are having 2 world cup parties and invited to a final BBQ as well. Really excited. LOVE the wall-to-wall football and will watch / listen to as many matches as possible

I will be supporting England and Holland (have Dutch exILs that I love), Belgium (in fond memory of a Belgian waiter I met a while back who told me in bed that they would win so I have money on them) and Brazil who DD2 has in the class sweepstake

We'll be knocked out soon enough and then it will all be over. Just keep telling yourself that

I'm going to get stuck into watching the really skilled teams play and appreciate the art of the game a bit.

My DH is football obsessed and even he's very quiet on the subject of the World Cup.

There doesn't seem to be much hype around it this year - not round here anyway.

I was saying to DH I remember much bigger build ups in previous years. He reckons it will kick off a lot more if/when we get through the first group bit

The last Euro thingy was a bit of a damp squib as well if I remember rightly, the same year as the Olympics and we were all utterly glued to that, the Euros passed me by without me even noticing them

I'm supporting England (where I'm from) and the US (where I live). My DC have got flags all over their rooms (and when I suggested an English one, they refused) but it isn't a big deal where I live really.

I had to plan for the world cup in Brazil from January 2013 as I work for a sports company.

I am truly up to the back teeth with it.

I don't mind the event itself, we'll pick an underdog and support them, but the adverts are getting on my bloody nerves. Everything in life is connected to the world cup now apparently...

"it's super important to have fresh breath and strong teeth during this years world cup, so make sure you have Listerine...."

WTAF???

I live overseas so the emphasis in the media here is on playing the sport, not getting in a load of pork pies, fish finger sandwiches and multi packs of beer to sit around getting indigestion on....

And I'm glad that someone else mentioned Brazil. I thought I was the only person in the world that doesn't seem to want to live in Brazil.

I have never, and will never get excited about Brazil. I don't envy anyone living in a cardboard house looking over at some dot.com millionaires tacky mansion, I don't think arse implants are sexy, I don't get excited about concrete Jesus' and your bloody music is as repetitive as hell with one dance step.

And we have the Olympics to come too....

YANBU big time. Dull as dogshit.

Radio set to 4 Extra and TV to BBC 4 - sport-free zones.

Our staff overwhelming voted to have a whole week of basing our lessons around the World Cup. I am not amused. I could not care less about soccer, would be hard pressed to name a player and presume that the Socceroos will have a hard time scoring the bars, let alone on the field.

Principal came in to the hall today during our gym time: 'What are you doing? I thought we were doing a week about the World Cup. Why aren't you playing soccer?'

Me (over the music): 'We are studying the World Cup. We're studying Brazilian culture and learning the Samba.

I win :)

I'm trying to be interested. We're not a football household but I like to get in the spirit of big, national events. I'll buy DS a flag to wave during the matches until he loses interest.

I'm the only woman at work with 7 men. I suggested a sweepstake as a way to get involved and they leapt at the idea. I did not realise it was going to be £10 to enter though

Sooo, I'm supporting Spain because I stand to win £80. Then England. Then France, because we like France.

I won't be staying up to watch any matches though. Realistically we'll only see the ones that start at 7pm, unless they're boring.

We're studying Brazilian culture and learning the Samba. Tee hee, good on you, I think that is great. Thinking about it, our school does actually have a large map of the world in the entrance area, and it has been marked and decorated with the various countries, but more about something from that country rather than anything to do with the footballers.

I live very near London and there is absolutely nothing doing here. No flags on cars, houses, no posters, no pub adverts for watch the games here, nothing. No event at school in its honour (thank heavens). School went nuts for the Olympics, it was the theme for a whole term and we became formally affiliated and everything. My son who loves football hasn't even mentioned it either!

I love watching the matches, it's the hype and pundits before and after the match that I can't stand. Endless bloody post mortems on each and every pass drives me mad.

Well, I was just saying this to someone yesterday, I, m bored with it already...

All that hype, all the media and pubs etc. all hyped up... All to cash in of course...

Oh well, if I can, t get away from it like I said, l don, t watch football, but I can watch (some) gorgeous fit men!

yawn I hate it

fortunately DH & DS not that bothered either

YANB at all U.

I get that its a big deal for some people and I'm happy for them but agree with a previous poster about it being connected to everything at the moment - the hysteria surrounding it gets a bit much. I was looking for some new t-shirts the other day but all the new ones are England/Brasil/football themed. Same with kids' clothes. I just want a couple of nice, new T-Shirts ffs.

Anyway, try being Scottish, living in England and uninterested in football - its basically open season on me in my office right now. I almost started a thread about it yesterday but don't want people to think I'm being goady. I just hate being the target of teasing and piss-taking just because I'm Scottish in country that is, right now, obsessed with English patriotism (albeit football-related) - and the thing that no-one can seem to get their head around is this: I am happy for English people to be patriotic but HATE the assumption that because I'm Scottish the sea of England flags around me must somehow be a problem for me. FFs I married and Englishman and have lived here for 16 years..
Once again at work they have pinned the biggest English flag they could find above my desk so everyone can have a laugh about the supposed irony of a giant English flag above the sole Scottish person because it must be oh so awful for me when the only thing that actually fucks me off is that stereotypical assumption!!

DH suggested I replace it with a Scottish one. Once I stopped laughing I reminded him that a)they didn't qualify, b)that would only fuel the fire and c) I don't care about football

And breathe....

Sorry for thread hijack - hit a nerve.

I like it being in Brazil and am looking forward to some of those Brazilian carnival vibes wafting over here this summer.

So, on it's opening day, I can muster a tiny bit of enthusiasm for it as a competition the whole world can get behind

But by day 2 I'll be heartily sick of the whole thing

• mainly as DH will be hogging the box every evening and the DC and I won't get a look in - and will miss all our usual stuff

I've crocheted my 12 y.o.a big England flag comfort blanket...for when they lose. AIBU?

YABU. I love the World Cup. I love big sports events in general!

If curling were a big social event, I would totally jump on that bandwagon as well

Liking your attitude scouse

Yawn.

I can't even muster enough enthusiasm to compose a proper response.