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 don't suppose it will be long before people start moaning about Coronation Street being rescheduled or something.

Skipped into Lidl today only to be woefully disappointed that the treasure aisleland had nothing but world cup related garbage instead of the usual OMG I REALLY NEED THIS stuff

I love football but at the moment I am decidedly unenthusiastic as I think we'll do badly. DS home from his year abroad tomorrow and I have instructions to get the flag in the window before he arrives home
Going out to dinner tonight with our friends who probably don't know it's even on - it's our only chance to meet up so we are sacrificing the first game and recording the highlights!

Oh love that phrase - Treasure Aisleland.

Apart from the marketing and selling drive I also hate the fanaticism surrounding football.

Going into work the day after a game and grown men actually sulking, or refusing to speak, people crying at the end of matches etc.

Trying to get work out of a team on a Friday when they are furiously updating fantasy leagues etc....

I remember working in London during one WC and the bus driver actually telling me to hurry the fuck up and get off the bus as the game was starting in 15 minutes. I had my arm in a sling and two shopping bags!

....and the hideous feel of the fabric on football jerseys.....and being pressurized to sell 20,000 overbought Algeria shirts with a crap margin and not lose any profit

But this thread will be like Mrs Browns Boys again won't it - never the twain shall meet

I love it. We're supporting Algeria here. The kids are using it as the basis of their world topic in school and it's really helped with their geography. 123 viva l'Algerie!

Will take some of those Algeria shirts off you wally banters

Bugger ... Why is it always assumed wrongly, IMHO that all men should enjoy the damned stuff.

Don't have a tv, turn the radio on after the sports news, stay off social media, choose a partner who isn't interested in football, ignore the plastic tat in the shops, turn a blind eye to the neighbour's flags, refuse to discuss it even negatively, find something far better to do for the next 4 weeks.

Easy. World Cup? What World Cup?

Sorry Sallyingforth and you are right.

Love it!

Neymar's just scored, it's 1-1 v Croatia, fantastic!!

Come on England!!

MidniteScribbler - I have a whole half term of it. It is our Y2 topic. And I definitely didn't vote for it! Infact, only 2 of the y2 teaching staff voted for it, out of 7. I'm focusing on the countries/culture side of things rather than football as much as I can! Even our y2 leavers show is World Cup themed - argh!

Yabu

Engerland!!!!!

Only way I could avoid it would also include not going to work for the whole half term; not sure that's possible!

Nothing patriotic about supporting the England football team.

still that was a soft penalty! The ref does seem a bit of a homer, Neymar could have easily been sent off and I can't see why the Croat's equaliser was ruled out.

"I cannot believe how many ordinary folk are sick and tired (rightly) of the corruption and general fat-cat'edness of some of our politicians and big business leaders - and yet are happy to shell out for a season ticket to see blokes who are being paid thousands a week to do nothing but kick a ball about."
Erm, top footballers are paid thousands a week BECAUSE people are happy to shell out for a season ticket to watch them. They deserve what they are being paid. Politicians don't. Footballers being paid millions has nothing to do with poverty and deprivation. It isn't football clubs responsibility to solve world hunger. And why are footballers singled out when singers/actors etc also earn similarly huge sums of money. At least football is a meritocracy.

And why are footballers singled out when singers/actors etc also earn similarly huge sums of money. At least football is a meritocracy.

Because footballers are almost exclusively working class and the idea of working class people having lots of money appals and frightens the middle classes.
Hence the press fixate on their wages ( note, wages not salary and it is given as a weekly not a monthly figure despite the fact they are paid monthly) in a way they don't about films stars. When did you last hear bellyaching about how much Beyonce gets paid for a concert, or how much Robert Downey jr. is paid for his latest film.

I used to get excited about it, when I was a kid I collected Panini stickers and everything, but that was before I realised the sheer pain of supporting England isn't worth it.
I love watching football but not the crap that goes with it.
For almost half a century (far longer than I've been around) England have been universally shite, and football itself has become increasingly distant from reality, with absolutely astronomical sums changing hands for players who then turn out to not actually be that good at national level.
Everyone still bangs on about 1966 - we won once, apparently, not sure if people knew that?
I also think Brazil are being greedy hosting both the World Cup and The Olympics especially when the country is in massive financial trouble.
Plus that opening ceremony was awful, it looked like a GCSE drama project, not a £9m "spectacular".
Give me the Olympics any day, true sportsmen and women (incidentally competing at the same time, getting equal coverage, only relying on sponsorship and generosity to be there in the first place).
If England get to the final, I might get excited. But they won't. So I won't.